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The certainty of mathematics depends on its complete abstract generality.
There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.
Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large World War Two Soviet tank.