Dualism and the DA

From: Russell Standish <r.standish.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:28:12 +1000

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 06:05:16PM -0700, Jonathan Colvin wrote:
>
> Since it is coming from Nick B., over-exhaustive :)
> I don't think anybody, Nick included, has yet come up with a convincing way
> to define appropriate reference classes. Absent this, the only way to rescue
> the DA seems to be a sort of dualism (randomly emplaced souls etc).
>

Nooo! - the DA does not imply dualism. The souls do not need to exist
anywhere else before being randomly emplaced.

Cheers

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