From: Brian Holtz [brian@holtz.org] Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 7:41 AM To: Alt.Atheism.Moderated Subject: Re: Science & atheism are cultures. "Jesse Nowells" wrote: > Your possible universes may exist. Why do you want to cross > the line & assert that they exist without any evidence? My entire point, which you utterly fail to grasp, is that there is no identified "line" here to "cross". There is no identified difference for universes between possible and actual existence. You have repeatedly and conspicuously failed to identify any such difference. > You can't discern any difference or equivalence between possibility & > actuality on something you deem is possible unless you deem it to be > actual as well. You have things backwards, because you continue to mistakenly think that the possible/actual distinction within worlds can be naively applied across worlds. It cannot, and you have no argument to the contrary. I don't decide that merely possible worlds are 'actual' and then go looking for a difference or equivalence with mere possibility. Rather, I ask what 'actual' means for worlds and then observe that it is indistinguishable from 'merely possible' for worlds. You have repeatedly failed to demonstrate that you even begin to understand my argument. I challenge you to try to paraphrase the last sentence of the previous paragraph in your own words. -- brian@holtz.org http://humanknowledge.net