On Wednesday, February 25, 2015, Bruce Kellett <bhkell...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > >> On Wednesday, February 25, 2015, Bruce Kellett <bhkell...@optusnet.com.au >> <mailto:bhkell...@optusnet.com.au>> wrote: >> >> First person indeterminacy is just another name for "in-principle >> unknowable"! >> >> No it's not. It provides an explanation of how the world can be >> completely deterministic but to you as an observer within it appear truly >> random, so that not even God would be able to tell you what you will >> experience next. >> > > That seems to me to be a very good case of something being "in-principle > unknowable". If it is not "in-principle unknowable", the onus is on you to > spell out the principles and circumstances in which the time of the > radioactive decay of a particular atom is knowable in advance. > > Bruce > Yes, but FPI is not "another name for in principle unknowable". Whether a computer program will halt may be in principle unknowable, but it's not due to the FPI. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
