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# depends.
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.
(, Fri 22 Feb 2008, 13:30, archived)
# As am I
I feel I may have to abandon this contretemps in favour of buying some lunch.

Toodle-oo!
(, Fri 22 Feb 2008, 13:32, archived)
# Doesn't logic dictate that everything is possible?
(, Fri 22 Feb 2008, 13:33, archived)
# not unless
they changed the rules of logic while i was in the bathroom.
(, Fri 22 Feb 2008, 13:34, archived)
# So some things are absolutely impossible?
Where does this put the parallel universes and realities ideas then?
(, Fri 22 Feb 2008, 13:36, archived)
# logic,n.
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.
(, Fri 22 Feb 2008, 13:37, archived)
# All universes...
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.)
(, Fri 22 Feb 2008, 13:47, archived)