On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 1:55 PM, John Mikes <jami...@gmail.com> wrote:
> in (my) deterministic agnosticism everything is entailed (var: causal) That belief is not consistent with the observation of real life. If that were true we couldn't know anything until we knew everything, and clearly we don't know everything but we do know something. > I cannot argue that 'everything is causal > Neither can I, but I can argue that everything is causal or everything is not causal. For reasons I don't understand this conclusion from the commonplace use of elementary logic is surprising and controversial to people around here. > I have no discerning description of it. Life? I don't know what it is. > But I recognize life when I see it, and in general examples are much more important than definitions. I can't define intelligence either, perhaps I'm just not intelligent enough to do that, but I know of examples of it and examples that seem to lack it. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
