From: Brian Holtz [brian@holtz.org] Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 8:03 AM To: Alt.Atheism.Moderated Subject: Re: Science & atheism are cultures. "Paul Holbach" wrote: > 2) Why is D empty? > There must be some objective fact which is responsible for Dīs being > empty. (What is an "objective fact"?) The "reason" D contains what it contains, and doesn't contain what it doesn't contain, is simply that it is a definition of one world rather than another. > 3) PL is the place where all facts must be listed which truthfully > describe D. No, PL is simply a list of non-contradictory propositions about the elements of D. Nothing I've said implies what you claim. > itīs a matter of good sportsmanship to concede defeat! I'll "concede defeat" right around the time you demonstrate a consensus in the philosophical community that nothingness (defined as the minimal/empty world) is self-contradictory. -- brian@holtz.org http://humanknowledge.net