But extracting something from the Plenitude is trivial, or so it seems
to most people. If I have an infinite bin of dollar coins, and I owe
you $10, I don't see any difficulty in paying you the $10. Do you?
Cheers
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 10:57:38PM -0500, Daddycaylor.domain.name.hidden wrote:
> In the previous post I should have said, "Russell, you've even said in your
> Why Occam's Razor paper that the Plenitude is ontologically _equivalent_ to
> Nothing."
>
> Tom
> From: Daddycaylor.domain.name.hidden
> Full-name: Daddycaylor
> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 22:50:23 EST
> Subject: Re: Let There Be Something
> To: r.standish.domain.name.hidden
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> To me it's very simple, and I've already laid it out in just a few words
> below, and in more words in different ways in my previous posts on this thread.
> Russell, you've even said in your Why Occam's Razor paper that the Plenitude
> is ontologically to Nothing. To it follows that the following two mappings
> are the same:
>
> Plenitude --> Something
> Nothing --> Something
>
> It's basically a singularity either way. That's why I invoked the word
> "faith" below.
>
> Tom
>
>
> Russell Standish wrote:
> > I don't agree that your original query was left unanswered - it was
> > answered by several people, in possibly contradictory ways (that
> > remains to be seen - I tend to see the commonality). Perhaps you
> > mean the answers were unsatisfactory for you, in which case I'd
> > be interested in hearing from you why they are unsatisfactory.
>
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 11:41:10AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Perhaps there needs to be a new thread for the new topic (Game of Life,
> > etc.).
> >
> > It seems my original inquiry has been left unanswered, but this is my
> > point. My challenge was that multiverse theory is just pulling things
> > out of thin air just as much as any other metaphysical theory. At each
> > point in the history of science, science needs an external foundation
> > to stand on, and by definition this is extra-science. Cluttering up the
> > picture with "Everything" doesn't solve the problem at all. The
> > multiverse is a tautology. Attributing meaning to it is a statement of
> > faith.
> >
> > Tom
>
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