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On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, John Cowan wrote: > Invent Yourself scripsit: > > > No good! There is only one reality, all others are (equally) unreal. > > President McGovern, Irish Socrates, and the one where I drank hot > > chocolate last night are all equally false. The Verification Principle > > shows this. > > How? > > You really see no difference between the you-drank-hot-chocolate world > and the 2 + 2 = 5 (or worse yet, 2 + 2 = Albert) worlds, or the world > where all universals are false, or the world where all false statements > are true? In terms of the 2 cases being fictional worlds about which I might read, I see a difference. I can imagine the chocolate but not the 4 = 5. This is something that con men and fiction authors should keep in mind, so they can craft realistic works. But in terms of reality, both cases are provably false; 0 in the boolean sense. -- // if (!terrorist) // ignore (); // else collect_data ();