In the first case both the known and unknown are growing. In the second the known
is growing and the unknown shrinking.
Marie Foster wrote:
> No, I kid you not... The more we think we know... the more mystery we find
> attached to it. The older I get the more I find this personally true. And if
> you read the greatest thinkers closely, you will find they agree with me.
>
> Eric Boyd wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Marie Foster <mfos@ieway.com> wrote:
> > > It is the unknown that grows. The known only gets smaller.
> >
> > What? Surly you got it backwards by mistake. The known is getting bigger,
> > and getting bigger ever faster even! The unknown, of course, is
> > *infinite*, and so I'm not sure it even make sense to say that it's
> > "getting smaller" or "is growing". How much is infinity plus 2?
> >
> > ERiC
>
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