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On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, John Cowan wrote: > Invent Yourself scripsit: > > > 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. > > Granted. But President McGovern 1972-76 is a world you can reason about > usefully, whereas the world where "true" and "false" have the same referent > isn't. "Usefully"? What do you mean? All we can do it write unchallengable fantasies about it. -- // if (!terrorist) // ignore (); // else collect_data ();