(July 30, 2013 at 12:56 am)Esquilax Wrote: We're already in a discussion about multiple worlds, magic djinn and space wizardry by that point, though: what's one more impossible thing?
I don't think the things you mentioned are actually impossible, rather they're just absurd but nonetheless possible given no *apparent* incoherence in their concepts. And possible worlds just refer to the ways things could have been ("states of affairs"), nothing that crazy.
Quote:Besides, we've seen plenty of things that exist create other things, but something that doesn't exist creating something? That's one of a kind! Pretty impressive to me.
But my point was that is incoherent. A being that has the power to create a square-circle might be said to be impressive... until you realize the concept of a square-circle is incoherent and so too is a being that could make one, i.e it cannot be the case.
