From: Brian Holtz [brian@holtz.org] Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2002 11:20 PM To: alt.atheism.moderated Subject: Re: Science & atheism are cultures. "Paul Holbach" wrote: > > "Nomologically possible" means possible under the natural laws of > > this universe. It does not mean possible under the natural laws > > of at least one universe. > > [..] Itīs possibly true that all universes there > might be are governed by the same natural laws and yet be factually > different, and itīs equally possibly true that each universe there > might be is governed by specific natural laws only applying to one > universe. Yes, but this does not change the fact that "nomologically possible" is used in the philosophical literature precisely as I described above. -- brian@holtz.org http://humanknowledge.net