From: Brian Holtz [brian@holtz.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 1:10 AM To: alt.atheism.moderated Subject: Re: Science & atheism are cultures. "Jesse Nowells" wrote: > I have no reason to presume that any possible world mention [sic] > is in fact the actual world so why should I presume that > therefore there is no difference between them? By "no difference" I of course do not mean an absence of ontological identity. When someone says there's "no difference" between republicans and democrats, do you really think they're asserting an ontological identity? > That's my objection & you keep ignoring it > & then play word games to prove how cleverly confused you > are & how grand it would be for everyone else to be like you. If your reading of my postings can yield *this* conclusion, then it's little wonder that you have not successfully parsed my thesis. :-) > So, just state your thesis I already have. My thesis is that nobody has "described (and not just named or labeled) a difference between an actual world and a merely possible world", and so there is "no reason to consider them different". > & give a formal proof. I of course cannot formally prove such a universal negative, but I can certainly point to your deafening silence when asked to describe (and not just name or label) such a difference. -- brian@holtz.org http://humanknowledge.net