Re: Peterson's Death Sentence

From: Willem (willem_at_stack.nl)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 17:08:43 +0000 (UTC)

John wrote:
) You still seem to think that the rules of logic which apply in our
) universe are valid extra-universally. If there's no reason why
) another universe different from ours can't exist, then there's also no
) reason why the rules of logic shouldn't be different there than they
) are here.

Neither is there a reason why another universe *should* exist.
Also, as long as there is no possible interaction between the two
universes, there is no reason why we should *care* if another universe
exists, since it can have no effect whatsoever on our own, so it would be
*just as if* those other universes did not exist.

) AFAIK there's no reason why we can preclude the possibility of the
) other universe(s) existing, so there's also no reason why we can deny
) the possibility of systems of logic different from ours existing
) there.

Logic is a means of describing and arguing, nothing more.
We are the ones describing and arguing, therefore our logic applies.

SaSW, Willem 

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