PI and its value

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FrodeauxB at aol.com wrote:
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> Remember, we don't know reality-we only know our perception of it.


Thus spoke Theaetetus, "knowledge is perception." 

Is man the measure of things, Pythagoras? 

If the perceiver is in flux and the world is in flux can
perception be more than only a momentary interaction of the
two Hericlitus? 

If what is real for us is not real, because it is relative
to us and if the material world is not real because it lacks
that reality which emerges from it to the senses and if the
ideal forms are not real because they are ideal and therefor
lack the reality that they would have if they were
actualized, what reality remains?  Howabout the possibility
that each thing is real in what it is. A statue of Pynchon
is not the real Pynchon, but it is a real statue. What if
what each thing is IS its essence? 

Oh philosophy is not dead, but it is kinda boring, but
poetry, oh the mad up world of fiction,  now that's the
stuff to drink for fellows that like beauty when they think. 

Rushdie responds to Pynchon, yes, but I find him a bore, but
Delillo's conversation with Pynchon is an Ali shuffle in the
nose bleeders at Yankee stadium on the fourth of July:  

"This is the people's history and it has flesh and breath
that quickens to the force of this old safe game of
ours...All the fragments of the afternoon collect around his
airborne form. Shouts, bat-cracks, full bladders and stray
yawns, the sand-grain manyness of things that can't be
counted. It is falling indelibly into the past." 

			---Delillo, Underworld