Subj : Possible Worlds
To   : Stewart Honsberger
From : Steven Van Vliet
Date : Mon Oct 29 2001 07:53 pm

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

SH>{tugging collar} Well gawrsh..

SH>Seeing as it's possible that our world doesn't exist

How is it possible that our world doesn't exist when our existence is 
shown by this very written intercourse between us two existent beings?

Or is this an illusion?

If it's an illusion...whom is experiencing same?

US perhaps? :-P

Meaning WE EXIST!

SH>(is it possible
SH>for (for lack of a better word) phantom beings to be conscious of
SH>their physical surroundings? What is 'physical', as we know it? But,
SH>enough about me ... )

Well, if we are "phantom beings" that are somehow deluded into thinking 
what we see is real doesn't equate to our not existing. It only equates 
to our perhaps existing as something beyond what we perceive.

We STILL clearly exist.

We modem, therefore we are. :-P

SH> SVV> My answer: False.

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

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

Me too. 'Cause there is oft WAY too much bullshit in this echo.

Philosophy is SUPPOSED to be the search for TRUTH.

On here it is rendered to the search for fantasy, most oft.

SH>Anything that could exist, could possibly exist.

Of course.

As I said. 

SH>Heck - we could possibly exist!

We DO exist.

We have proof.

Again, our written intercourse proves it.

The silly assed thought that ANYTHING "logically" posited DOES exist is 
an absolute without basis though. So the answer to the initial question 
at top is clearly "no". 
Especially since "logically possible" isn't defined.

* CMPQwk 1.42 16554 * Damnant quod non intelligunt

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