David Nyman skrev:
On 11/07/07, Brent Meeker <meekerdb@dslextreme.com> wrote:
(quite contrary to the premise of the everything-list, but one that I'm glad to entertain).
For what it's worth, I really don't see that this is necessarily
contrary to the premise of this list. The proposition is that all
POSSIBLE worlds exist, not that anything describable in words (or for
that matter mathematically) 'exists'. My analysis is an attempt to
place a constraint on what can be said to exist in any sense strong
enough to have any discernible consequences, either for us, or for
any putative denizens of such 'worlds'. So I would argue that
non-reflexive worlds are not possible in any consequential sense of
the term.
What do you mean with a POSSIBLE world?
One exemple of a possible world is that GoL-universe, of which there is
a picture of on the Wikipedia page.
One interesting thing about this particular GoL-universe is that it is
finite, the time goes in a circle in that universe. That universe only
consists of 14 situations. After the 14th situation follows the 1st
situation again.
This GoL-universe exists, but it is a non-reflexive world, I can not
see anything reflexive in that universe.
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Torgny Tholerus
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Received on Wed Jul 11 2007 - 03:01:41 PDT