On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 06:05:16PM -0700, Jonathan Colvin wrote: > > Since it is coming from Nick B., over-exhaustive :) > I don't think anybody, Nick included, has yet come up with a convincing way > to define appropriate reference classes. Absent this, the only way to rescue > the DA seems to be a sort of dualism (randomly emplaced souls etc). >
Nooo! - the DA does not imply dualism. The souls do not need to exist anywhere else before being randomly emplaced. Cheers -- *PS: A number of people ask me about the attachment to my email, which is of type "application/pgp-signature". Don't worry, it is not a virus. It is an electronic signature, that may be used to verify this email came from me if you have PGP or GPG installed. Otherwise, you may safely ignore this attachment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 8308 3119 (mobile) Mathematics 0425 253119 (") UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks International prefix +612, Interstate prefix 02 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------