RE: On Logic and Alternate Universes
November 6, 2016 at 1:00 pm
(This post was last modified: November 6, 2016 at 1:04 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 6, 2016 at 12:52 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote:-and so what, again.....the op wants a coherent universe, if we place the law of identity there, referent to what occurs in their universe when two quantities of two things yields five quantities of that thing, in order to make something follow and give us something to talk about.....but all of the other rules are different, so that..for example...two quantities of two things can yield the sum of five things...is that sufficient condition to call those rules, whatever they are, logical rules?(November 6, 2016 at 12:48 pm)Rhythm Wrote: It -doesn't- have to hold, the ops hypothetical explicitly states a universe with different laws
Yawn.
That already presupposes the law of identity. Any description of a universe at all has an identity.
Quote:Not without them being irrational hypotheticals.Do you think we disagree on this, or?
You absolutely -can- address such a premise. I did. I informed the op that it was an illogical equivocation, on it;s own merits...even if all of it was true, regardless of whether or not it -can be- true.
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