Re: Peterson's Death Sentence

From: John Fields (jfields_at_austininstruments.com)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:02:35 -0600

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 17:08:43 +0000 (UTC), Willem <willem@stack.nl>
wrote:

>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. 

---
Ah, _but_ if they interact... Miracles, in my view, are
extra-universal manifestations and, if they exist, point to something
extraordinary which we _should_ care about. (Well, those of us who
_do_ care about such interesting things, at any rate)...
---
  
>) 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.
---
But as John Woodgate so succinctly put it, (and I'm paraphrasing) if
you want to argue about something which is beyond logic, you can't
argue using logic. 
-- 
John Fields

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