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Re: [lojban] RE: Imaginary worlds (MORE VERBOSE)(but hoepfully cleaner)
At 09:54 AM 02/11/2001 -0500, you wrote:
I really did try to get this to come over from Word in a readable way, but
Word seems to have a strange idea of what "text" is. Herewith another
version, hopefully cleaner -- next step is WordStar's ASCII.
Given the way it is coming across, it looks like it is presuming HTML and
not text. It is in a formatted font (which is thus not plain text), and
somewhere in the message was an """.
I am not likely to follow the philosophical stuff that this thread in
producing, especially given the volume. But can I ask one clarifying
question? Regardless of whatever imaginary world you may be considering,
when you express an utterance it is evaluated in only one world which may
be real or imaginary, right? A given statement is either true or false,
things exist or they do not exist. Right?
The problem with "imaginary worlds" is that merely posing them suggests to
some people including myself, that the invocation of possible worlds
invokes ALL possible worlds at once, so that therefore unicorns both exist
and not exist at one time, and all truths dependent on the conditions and
existences of the world are indeterminant (i.e. only logical
contradictions are invalid).
lojbab
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