Subj : Possible Worlds
To   : Steven Van Vliet
From : Stewart Honsberger
Date : Mon Oct 29 2001 02:42 pm

Hello Steven!

Oct 29 2001 16:36, Steven Van Vliet wrote to Lee Lofaso:

 LL>>True or False: Any logically possible world that one can think of
 LL>>actually exists.

{tugging collar} Well gawrsh..

Seeing as it's possible that our world doesn't exist (is it possible for (for 
lack of a better word) phantom beings to be conscious of their physical 
surroundings? What is 'physical', as we know it? But, enough about me ... )

 SVV> My answer: False.

 SVV> Just add "could possibly" to that "question" and I'd say "True" 
 SVV> though. Of course.

Oh come now - I'm ashamed to be here! ;>

Anything that could exist, could possibly exist. Heck - we could possibly 
exist!

[Stewart Honsberger] [blackdeath@softhome.net] [http://blackdeath.2y.net/]

   "In /1984/, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain.
    In /Brave New World/, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure.
    In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley
    feared that what we love will ruin us." -- Neil Postman

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