RE: On Logic and Alternate Universes
November 17, 2016 at 11:19 am
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2016 at 11:28 am by The Grand Nudger.)
There's nothing more for me to say than what I've already said. You have a fundamental mis-appraisal of what reason is, of what those laws are. They are not a proscriptive force that determines outcomes, what can be, or what is. Things that run afoul of logical laws (and particularly just as you know them...think about that for a minute...you wouldn;t be the first person to think you knew those rules, and been wrong - it took us time to get the system where it is) may be incoherent, even incomprehensible, but that doesn't mean that they don't or can't exist. It simply means that we can't rationally infer their existence by reference to these rules. That accepting the existence of such things is irrational, regardless of whether or not it's true.
I think they're the best rules we have. I assume you do as well, but I'm not going to inflate them to mythical proportions on account of it. I;m not going to make claims about reason or logic that can;t even be -rationally- justified.
The universe must adhere to logical laws...if the universe is to be comprehensible, coherent, specifically by reference to that standard....but not -to be-. The power of reason is in arranging our knowledge, not in arranging our universe.
I think they're the best rules we have. I assume you do as well, but I'm not going to inflate them to mythical proportions on account of it. I;m not going to make claims about reason or logic that can;t even be -rationally- justified.
The universe must adhere to logical laws...if the universe is to be comprehensible, coherent, specifically by reference to that standard....but not -to be-. The power of reason is in arranging our knowledge, not in arranging our universe.
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