RE: Existence must exist at all times.
November 8, 2016 at 1:30 pm
(This post was last modified: November 8, 2016 at 1:41 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 7, 2016 at 10:40 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Well... I guess my whole point is : nothing can't be.Probably too strong of a claim.
Quote:There isn't an alternative universe that isn't a universe
Not an existential question. That's a qualitative issue.
Quote:There are no hypothetical absences of universes. Universes are present by nature of being a universe.That would be a strange formulation of the linguistic problem of negative existentials.
If we say, as we might, in reference to the first sentence That "hypothetical absences of universes do not exist" - we've contradicted ourselves...obviously hypothetical absences of universes -do- exist, they are exactly what we are objecting to, lol. What we mean to say is that such hypotheticals are not accurate or are somehow flawed - a qualitative issue, not an existential one.
Plenty of answers to the issue of negative existentials, but we don't know which, if any of them, are accurate...which is -one- of the reasons that the claim at the very top is too strong of a claim. We don't know whether or not "nothing can/cannot be"...but we do know we have a hell of a difficult time even discussing it, let alone answering the question. OFC, other languages, and other systems of inference don't even have this problem - and that's amusing to note. It's not the only place that natural language is or may be a stumbling block, we run into a similar issue in considering the direction and nature of causality, at least in english, lol..in what's sometimes called the problem of the ship at sea.
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