From: Brian Holtz [brian@holtz.org] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 9:23 PM To: Alt.Atheism.Moderated Subject: Re: Science & atheism are cultures. "Jesse Nowells" wrote: > > For other worlds, existence is indistinguishable from mere possibility. > > The objective fact stands on its own either way regardless of your > inability to ascertain a difference between the feasibility of something's > existence & it's actuality. What "objective fact"? The only "objective fact" you can point to is that 'possibility/feasibility' and 'existence/actuality' are composed of different letters. You have no definitions of them that apply to universes that show any difference between these (allegedly different) concepts. > It would be more precise to say that existence > can't be discern or detect. No, it would be more precise to say that existence for other universes can't be (or at least hasn't been) defined (as anything distinct from mere possibility). > Implying that possibility & existence of other > worlds are "equivalent" is an argument from ignorance since you admit you > can't "distinguish" between other world's existence & their possibility. You are incorrectly assuming that 'existence' for worlds has some well-defined criteria and that I'm just relying on the fact that we don't or can't know whether a given other world satisfies those criteria. That's not my position at all. Rather, I'm saying that no such criteria have been identified. -- brian@holtz.org http://humanknowledge.net