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Old Thu Jan 01, 2015, 03:02pm
jeremy341a jeremy341a is offline
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Originally Posted by Camron Rust View Post
You seem to not understand the difference of definite and accurate/exact. You can very much have definite knowledge of a continuous variable but it may not be precise or accurate. We only are required to have definite knowledge, not accurate/exact knowledge.

Did you get to 4 on three different 5 counts? You definitely did regardless of how accurate that counts are.
Definition of definite.
1.
clearly defined or determined; not vague or general; fixed; precise; exact:
a definite quantity; definite directions.

I understand your point and I have no trouble with if you are at a 4 count being able to take 4 seconds off the clock even though 4 is an approximation. I feel that definite is not the correct term. You do have a definite count but not definite knowledge of how much time to take off. It is just semantics however I feel it could be worded better

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