Ontological closure

From: Russell Standish <r.standish.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 08:29:01 +1000

On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 09:40:30AM -0500, daddycaylor.domain.name.hidden wrote:
>
> Of course, we can't be sure when we close ourselves in from any
> explanation that is "meaningless".

I'm not so concerned with meaningless. However it must be consistent
both with our observations and with itself. That is still an open question.

All other proposed mechanisms of ontological closure - eg the God
hypothesis are fundamentally meaningless, so there is no loss here.

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