From: Brian Holtz [brian@holtz.org] Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 8:53 AM To: Alt.Atheism.Moderated Subject: Re: Science & atheism are cultures. "Jesse Nowells" wrote: > If there is no criteria to judge another > world's existence, there is no criteria to claim that another world's > possibility is equivalent with it's actuality. I told you precisely what the latter criterion is: the principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles. I've told you this repeatedly, and on each occasion you've been utterly incapable of addressing this point. If existence means anything at all for other worlds, it is indistinguishable from mere possibility, and is thus equivalent. > it doesn't follow that other worlds' possibilities are necessarily > equivalent with their actualities. I'm not claiming there is a well-defined separate meaning of 'existence' for other worlds and that this meaning is somehow necessarily equivalent to mere possibility. I'm instead claiming that 'existence' is not well-defined for other worlds, and that the way this lexeme is used makes it indistinguishable from (and thus equivalent to) mere possibility. > What criteria is being used > to make the suggestion that it is equivalent? The non-discernibility of > actuality & possibility for such worlds?! Yes -- as I've told you about half a dozen times. -- brian@holtz.org http://humanknowledge.net