Subj : Possible Worlds
To   : Lee Lofaso
From : Frank Masingill
Date : Mon Oct 29 2001 08:00 pm

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

    I suppose Callicles considered the world which he opposed to that of 
Socrates to be "logically possible" and it certainly was a world in which a 
Socrates could be judged guilty and executed by a narrow majority.  Plato 
described the various worlds that could be dreamed up in the night when beasts 
could go on the rampage but these were worlds lacking the "common" as described 
in the aphorisms of Heraclitus.

    Philosophers MAY occur in the "field of philosophy" in modernity but they 
certainly are no longer confined to that "field."  One may find them today in a 
variety of academic and non-academic endeavors - Language, Geography, etc.   
Opposed to philosophy are still the many doxologies which one might 
characterize as "private worlds."  The one and only REALITY has not 
disappeared, however.

Frank

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 * Origin: Frank's House (1:396/45.12)

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