(Reposted because of some techical problems...) On Jul 7, 2:00 pm, Bruno Marchal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le 05-juil.-07, à 14:19, Torgny Tholerus wrote: > > > > > David Nyman skrev: > >> You have however drawn our attention to something very interesting and > >> important IMO. This concerns the necessary entailment of 'existence'. > > 1. The relation 1+1=2 is always true. It is true in all universes. > > Even if a universe does not contain any humans or any observers. The > > truth of 1+1=2 is independent of all observers. > > I agree with you (despite a notion as "universe" is not primitive in my > opinion, unless you mean it a bit like the logician's notion of model > perhaps). As David said, this is arithmetical realism.
Yes, you can see a universe as the same thing as a model. When you have a (finite) set of rules, you will always get a universe from that set of rules, by just applying those rules an unlimited number of times. And the result of these rules is existing, in the same way as our universe is existing. Our universe is the result of some set of rules. The interesting thing is to discover the specific rules that span our universe. -- Torgny Tholerus --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
