RE: On Logic and Alternate Universes
November 11, 2016 at 8:38 pm
(This post was last modified: November 11, 2016 at 8:52 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Here's another fun, intuitive way to understand why "identity identity identity" doesn't work for the hypothetical...which I've alluded to before.
A 5 is a 5 is a 5.
-The hypothetical
Two fives, playing blackjack, is 10.
Two fives, playing poker, is a pair.
-The question
Is poker blackjackical?
Now, please, object by telling me that two fives can't be a pair because two fives is ten and so poker cant exist because of the rules of blackjack and "identity identity identity"? Meanwhile, I've only asked you whether or not poker is blackjackical. Is a five being a five, and ten being ten, and a pair being a pair - all of these tacit acceptance of identity -within- each respective game (read: universe) sufficient condition to consider poker blackjackical...or do you think that poker might need it;s own name, to refer to apparent contradictions in conclusions -between- games (read: universes) by leveraging different rules? Say, a term like....poker?
A 5 is a 5 is a 5.
-The hypothetical
Two fives, playing blackjack, is 10.
Two fives, playing poker, is a pair.
-The question
Is poker blackjackical?
Now, please, object by telling me that two fives can't be a pair because two fives is ten and so poker cant exist because of the rules of blackjack and "identity identity identity"? Meanwhile, I've only asked you whether or not poker is blackjackical. Is a five being a five, and ten being ten, and a pair being a pair - all of these tacit acceptance of identity -within- each respective game (read: universe) sufficient condition to consider poker blackjackical...or do you think that poker might need it;s own name, to refer to apparent contradictions in conclusions -between- games (read: universes) by leveraging different rules? Say, a term like....poker?
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