From: Brian Holtz [brian@holtz.org] Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 8:49 AM To: alt.atheism.moderated Subject: Re: Science & atheism are cultures. "Jesse Nowells" wrote: > I'm not claiming that there is a difference between possibility & > actuality within the domain of an *actual* world. Nor am I. > The actuality of a world is contingent. This claim would be more persuasive if you could in fact describe (and not just name or label) a difference between an actual world and a merely possible world. > > You indeed have given zero evidence of even trying to grasp my > > point here. If you came in late, I suggest you re-read my exchange > > with Tony Griffin, who did a good job of drawing out from me an > > explanation of this issue. > > Trying to find necessary equivalence between actuality & possibility in > any world regardless of a lack of actuality of that the world, is > sophistry. That's not what I'm "trying", as any halfway-attentive reading of this thread would demonstrate. :-) What I instead claim is that there is NO demonstrable NON-equivalence between actuality and mere possibility OF (not in) a world. You might consider understanding me before disagreeing with me... :-) -- brian@holtz.org http://humanknowledge.net