On 8/14/2012 7:37 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Stephen P. King
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 8/14/2012 10:45 AM, Roger wrote:
Hi Stephen P. King
Leibniz' best possible world is a conjecture
based on L's two worlds of logic:
1) There is logic that is either always true or false, called the
logic of reason or necessity.
One could call this "theory"
2) The logic of contingency, also called the logic of
"fact", experimental result,
or praxis, which can be true or false -- depending on the
perfection of the entity
or the time of occurrence. "actuality"
Most people who acccuse God of injustice or unfairness by a
supposedly loving God
confuse theory with actuality. Earthquakes do occur because the
world has imperfections
or cracks ior the cointinental plaes don't fit perfectly together.
And any fact must be that way for a reason, the reason also may
be contingent, etc.
up the line.
"Everything that is possible demands to exist." -- Leibniz
If everything possible exists (in Plato's heaven / the omniscient mind
of God) then so do all universes, all possible histories, all possible
observations and experiences, all points of view, all traces of the
execution of all programs, etc. Thus, if God is omniscient, he can't
help the fact that bad things happen.
Jason
Hi Jason,
Yes, all that is necessarily possible exists. This makes existence
neutral and having nothing to do with anything else. Properties arise
from partitioning portions of what exists against each other.
Properties, like truth values and locations, are not a priori. They are
contextual and thus contingent. Existence is not contingent on anything
other than raw necessary possibility.
--
Onward!
Stephen
"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
~ Francis Bacon
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