From: Brian Holtz [brian@holtz.org] Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 7:05 AM To: Alt.Atheism.Moderated Subject: Re: Science & atheism are cultures. "Jesse Nowells" wrote: > > no identified difference for universes between possible > > and actual existence. > > I'm not claiming a difference. You can't claim an equivalence. I can, by virtue of an argument that you not only haven't answered, but that you've given no indication you even understand. > I don't presume the absurdity that there is more than one totality of > everything that exists. You have no definition of 'exists' that makes this notion "absurd". I have a precise definition of 'exists' that clearly makes this notion not "absurd". > > I ask what > > 'actual' means for worlds and then observe that it is > > indistinguishable from 'merely possible' for worlds. > > I challenge you to try to paraphrase the last sentence > > You're confusing what is said about a world with a world. You're confusing worlds with your naive intuition about them and their properties. On the paraphrase challenge: Bzzt. You lose. -- brian@holtz.org http://humanknowledge.net