Hi Stephen P. King Leibniz was not a solipsist, since he took it for granted that the world out there was actually there. If a tree fell in a forest and nobody heard it, it still would have fallen.
Roger Clough, [email protected] 9/16/2012 Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so that everything could function." ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-15, 13:29:01 Subject: Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers On 9/15/2012 9:12 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King And then there is Leibniz's identity of indiscernibles, identity there meaning that you only need one of them, throw the rest away. Roger Clough, [email protected] 9/15/2012 Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so that everything could function." Hi Roger, Yes but! We have to solve the "other minds" problem or be content to simmer in our solipsist state of being. This requires something "external" to the singleton sets of objects. We need to have "room to make copies" of that would be otherwise identical objects. -- Onward! Stephen http://webpages.charter.net/stephenk1/Outlaw/Outlaw.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
