Subject: Re: [lojban] Imaginary worlds (was su'u)

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 00:04:23

la djan cusku di'e

>Consider Kripke's table T, which is brown and made of wood. We can
>have a possible world in which T is black because someone painted it.
>But can we have a world in which T itself, that very table, was
>made of another material?

What if we did to the table what those ancient Greeks did to
that ship (I don't remember the name). We replace one small
piece of wood by a piece of plastic, the table is still the table,
and we keep doing that until all the wood has been replaced
by plastic.

co'o mi'e xorxes

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