Re: No(-)Justification Justifies The Everything Ensemble

From: Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:08:48 +1000

On 12/09/2007, Brent Meeker <meekerdb.domain.name.hidden> wrote:

> >> OK. So where are the flying pigs?
> >
> > Elsewhere. Existence is not a property, but position is.
>
> Ok. Why are they there and not here?
>
> I'm sure that Stathis takes my point that saying everything-exists is not only "no-justification" it is also "no-information". By itself it is worthless for explaining anything.

Yes, you have to show how the theory makes predictions about the real
world, otherwise it is impossible to know whether it is true or not
and the theory is worthless.

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Stathis Papaioannou
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