Subj : Possible Worlds To : LEE LOFASO From : DAVE OLDRIDGE Date : Wed Oct 31 2001 07:06 pm On 10/30/2001 Lee Lofaso wrote to Dave Oldridge: LL> Hello Dave, LL> >LL>True or False: Any logically possible world that one can think of actual LL> >LL>exists. LL> DO>Why should this be true? Might there not be a finite number of such LL> DO>worlds that DO exist and an infinite number that don't? Short of LL> DO>examining all actually existing worlds, there is no way to know this... LL> Lewis suggested that if something is logically true then it must be LL> true. Is that a finite set? Maybe. But doubtful, given that there is Lewis was wrong. Something can be logically correct yet false. Logic is only truth if its structure is correct and its axioms and premises are true. LL> no way to verify all that can be logically true. Anything that is not LL> logically possible would be non-existent, since only something that is LL> logically possible can exist. But then, man's understanding of logic is LL> quite limited... Usually when nature presents a paradox, it is one (or more) of our assumptions that are wrong. LL> DO>(Or maybe it's only all possible entropically connected worlds, focused LL> DO>on a primordial beginning) . LL> If there is a beginning, there must be an end. And if there is an end, LL> such a world would no longer exist. Why should a beginning imply an end? If entropy starts at zero it can still increase indefinitely. --- þ MM 1.1 #0357 þ All of my REALLY GOOD taglines are one character too lon * Origin: FONiX Info Systems * Berkshire UK * www.fonix.org (2:252/171) .