Joao Leao wrote: > Your Principles are correct but the wording is not: > you should change all your use of *possible* to 'contingent' > and qualify as 'possible' instead all the invocations of 'world' > not qualified with *actual*. This because possible/actual is > a distinction that applies to worlds while necessary/contingent > applies to propositions... > > -Joao > > scerir wrote: > > > Federico: > > > I'm agree that informations are always subjective, but a physical or > > > matematical model should not be too. And perhaps the paradox I propose > > > is a four-order one. The problem in fact is that all the conclusions > > > we could think are consequence of the hypotesis of applying the > > > physical and matematical system. But if they were wrong, the > > > conclusions would be wrong, too. > > > > Principles of World Theory say, more or less, that: > > - a proposition (whatever) is *necessary* iff it is true in all worlds; > > - a proposition (whatever) is *possible* iff there is some world in which > > it is true; > > - there is only one *actual* world; > > - there are propositions which are true at the *actual* world; > > - there are propositions which are not true at the *actual* world, but > > they are true at some *non-actual* *possible* world. > > > > It is not much. But, in any case, we must start from these points :-) > > -- > > Joao Pedro Leao ::: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics > 1815 Massachussetts Av. , Cambridge MA 02140 > Work Phone: (617)-496-7990 extension 124 > VoIP Phone: (617)=384-6679 > Cell-Phone: (617)-817-1800 > ---------------------------------------------- > "All generalizations are abusive (specially this one!)" > -------------------------------------------------------
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