Hi Stephen P. King Libertarians aren't weird. They're essentially conservatives without a military.
Roger Clough, [email protected] 11/8/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-07, 19:17:21 Subject: Re: Communicability On 11/7/2012 12:01 PM, Roger Clough wrote: > Hi Stephen P. King > > Sounds reasonable. > > Being a conservative, however, I tend to adopt orthodox views > such as that of Leibniz (to my mind at least) and the Bible. Hi Roger, I am weird. I tend libertarian, but not archarchist. I see orthodoxy as OK but only within limited domains. > > > Roger Clough, [email protected] > 11/7/2012 > "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen > > > ----- Receiving the following content ----- > From: Stephen P. King > Receiver: everything-list > Time: 2012-11-07, 11:02:01 > Subject: Re: Communicability > > > On 11/7/2012 9:31 AM, Roger Clough wrote: > > Hi Stephen P. King > > Your criticism might be valid, but I never made the claim that Berkeley > is said to have made. Leibniz, possibly more like you, > would never have made such a claim. Leibniz believed that God > is purposeful (caused things to happen at least partially due > to end causes). > > > Dear Roger, > > My belief in God is anticipatory, in the sense that in the eternal struggle > of Becoming, as I hold to be true that the beliefs of observers will almost > always converge on mutually agreed upon facts and thus those observers will > have physical worlds with lawful or nomic relations without assuming that > avoid Plato? view that a universal can exist without being instantiated, as > we see here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/052422q295335527/. These > convergences are never a priori knowledge, they cannot be computed "ahead of > time". > > > > > Roger Clough, [email protected] > 11/7/2012 > "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen > > > ----- Receiving the following content ----- > From: Stephen P. King > Receiver: everything-list > Time: 2012-11-06, 18:12:43 > Subject: Re: Communicability > > > On 11/6/2012 11:01 AM, Roger Clough wrote: > > Hi Stephen P. King > > Even Berkeley had to admit that no forest, no whatever.. > was foolishness and so said that in that case, God > observed it. Get real. > > Hi Roger, > > Then you are explicitly admitting that God's only purpose is to be > an Absolute observer in whose eye all truth is definite. The problem is > that such ideas cannot explain how that definiteness is consistent with > the experimental results that confirm the violation of Bell's theorem > and other theorems (Gleason, Kochen-Specker). All I am claiming is that > the totality of all observers act as the absolute observer, not some > hypothetical entity that if examined carefully falls apart as > self-contradictory. What is so blasphemous about claiming that We are God? > > > > > > -- > Onward! > > Stephen > -- Onward! Stephen -- 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. -- 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.
