(June 10, 2010 at 8:20 am)Ramsin.Kh Wrote:
I don't think that it is particularly fruitful to talk about universes with different (or no) axioms. Apart from anything else, its extremely difficult to do so, since its difficult/ impossible to actually conceive of what such universes would be like. And given this, its hard to see what role they can play in philosophical discussions.
Ime, philosophers are concerned with 2 sorts of possible world/ universe:
- Logically possible worlds. That is: worlds that share our logic, but not necessarily our physical laws.
- Nomologically possible worlds. That is: worlds which have the same physical laws as ours, but may be different in other respects.
Clearly, the set of nomologically possible worlds is a subset of the set of logically possible worlds.
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Mikhail Bakunin
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything
Friedrich Nietzsche