Subj : Possible Worlds
To   : DAVE OLDRIDGE
From : LEE LOFASO
Date : Tue Oct 30 2001 12:35 pm

Hello Dave,

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

DO>Why should this be true?  Might there not be a finite number of such
DO>worlds that DO exist and an infinite number that don't?  Short of
DO>examining all actually existing worlds, there is no way to know this...

Lewis suggested that if something is logically true then it must be
true.  Is that a finite set?  Maybe.  But doubtful, given that there is
no way to verify all that can be logically true.  Anything that is not
logically possible would be non-existent, since only something that is
logically possible can exist.  But then, man's understanding of logic is
quite limited...

DO>(Or maybe it's only all possible entropically connected worlds, focused
DO>on a primordial beginning) <GD&R>.

If there is a beginning, there must be an end.  And if there is an end,
such a world would no longer exist.

--Lee


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