RE: On Logic and Alternate Universes
November 7, 2016 at 6:34 pm
(This post was last modified: November 7, 2016 at 6:35 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(November 7, 2016 at 4:23 pm)Rhythm Wrote: If, in -this- universe...there were some different ruleset, which we found to give more accurate, and also disparate, answers to the questions we currently answer with what we call logical rules....do you think it would be correct or useful..to call whatever those rules were, logical rules - or would they need their own term?
If they were in some sense logical then I think it would be correct or useful to call them logical, yes. Could these different rules exist without A=A? No.
Quote:Note, please...that the conjecture is not that there -is- a better set....I;m not asking you whether or not there -could be- a better set...I'm only asking you one thing. If there were, would you call them logical, or something else?
The problem was every time until now you've spoke not only of another set of rules but also a set of rules where either A does not =A or 2+2=5,
The point is the OP hypothetical fails. If all the OP said was "If there was a universe with another set of rules then there would be a universe with another set of rules but 2+2 still =4 and A still =A" then that would have been fine.
If the different rules were logical then of course I'd call them logical... it's only if they contradict logical absolutes that they can't be logical because they can't even exist hypothetically if they contradict logical absolutes.
