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Why? Thats what I'm asking. How do you measure importance? I'm very interested at this point.
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Between two items, I measure importance relatively - not absolutely. If something has an importance of x, something else may have an importance of x + n. Using this rationale, absolute numbers are not required.

If you disagree, fine. I would like to see something more substantial than 'I disgree because I see them as equally important..' or something like this.

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Whats more important to a human being, oxygen or water? You can't have water without oxygen, so by your logic, oxygen would be. But I'd have to say that there is no reason to assume they are not equally important to the creatures that them.
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Without oxygen, a human can live for a few minutes. Without water, a human can live for a few days - giving the human time to devise a plan to obtain water. Yes, I would have to say that if I had to make an immediate choice, oxygen would be the clear winner...< bg >...

>>The fact that you may not be able to arrive at an answer does not necessarily undermine the credibility of your analysis and reasoning. It may very well be that your analysis is incomplete. Sometimes, the achievment rests with understanding the problem. Often, I have had a conclusion in mind, one that I was ready to go with, only to come to an opposite conclusion once I analyzed the problem in further detail.
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>This is all true, but I don't see how this relates to determing the importance of one or the other in problem solving.

I'll leave it to you to figure out....