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18 January 2004 
Ms Nomer
From today's NYT Magazine Letters page:
I was struck by the Rev. Martyn Minns's remark "I'm trained as a mathematician. Either something is true or it isn't." He must know that the truth of a mathematical statement depends on the acceptance of the assumptions from which it is deduced. The same can be said of the truth of a theological statement, and this points up something common to theology and mathematics: both are constructs of the human mind and describe reality imperfectly at best.Pretty standard viewpoint. As unremarkable as it is wrong. But wait, who scribbled these skeptical sentences? "Melinda Certain." I guess she either enjoys the irony or can't afford the name change.
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