Possibilities, possibilities

In my last post I noticed that the 2 phrases - it isn't & it's not - are equivalent. Interesting, huh?

Why you should use "she"

In a previous, I addressed the issue of grammar. In that posted, I insisted on using the words, "she" and "her," as my pronouns as opposed to "he" or "him." I think this is the better way to go. Using the female equivalent of the pronoun makes your sentences more abstract, because it does not imply exclusivity. For instance, the sentence, "A student has to decide which of her backpacks to discard first," seems to imply that the student could be either male or female. "A student has to decide which of his backpacks to discard first," seems to imply that the student is male.

Initial value conditions

Sometimes, I think on, say, a math test for example, I could have done better (a purely hypothetical situation). Perhaps I made some "stupid" mistakes or didn't study or didn't know about the test... It bothers me when that occurs. And I don't like being bothered, at least not by myself.

So my new way of thinking about such matters is this: given a set of surrounding conditions a.k.a the "initial value conditions," the probabilistic outcome of me performing the exact same way as I did is very high. When you think about it, it makes sense. If you were to revisit a past event, would you have acted differently? I think the chances of us behaving the same way are very high, influenced largely by the initial value conditions that were lost in translation.

That's why I also don't bother correcting my grammar in previous posts.