
if you're a twunt,things exist by proxy of your empirical knowledge of them.if you're a scientist,things cannot be ruled out in every case.
i'm hungry.
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Fri 22 Feb 2008, 13:30,
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i'm hungry.

I feel I may have to abandon this contretemps in favour of buying some lunch.
Toodle-oo!
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Fri 22 Feb 2008, 13:32,
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Toodle-oo!

they changed the rules of logic while i was in the bathroom.
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Fri 22 Feb 2008, 13:34,
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Where does this put the parallel universes and realities ideas then?
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Fri 22 Feb 2008, 13:36,
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a system of evaluation of proposed theories which are tested based on empirical knowledge and subject to cross-references with systematic inference.
parallel universes?Star Trek.
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Fri 22 Feb 2008, 13:37,
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parallel universes?Star Trek.

All universes must be possible universes, and some things are just impossible. For example, a gold mountain may exist in some possible universes, and not in others. But in all possible universes, it must either exist or not exist. There are some statements - "A golden mountain both exists and doesn't exist" - that can never be true.
(Admittedly, this is taking me back to fresher metaphysics, and that was a long time ago. But I think the prinicple is right.)
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Fri 22 Feb 2008, 13:47,
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(Admittedly, this is taking me back to fresher metaphysics, and that was a long time ago. But I think the prinicple is right.)