On 08 Jun 2013, at 07:41, Stephen Paul King wrote:
" If you believe that a flying pink elephant is pink, must you
believe a flying pink elephant exists?"
Yes, at least for the chap that holds the belief and the belief is
true (ala Bruno).
Right, but like I said, I believe also that flying pink elephant are
not pink. And so I can easily prove that flying pink elephant does not
exist, as far as I am consistent.
Bruno
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:15 PM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net>
wrote:
On 6/7/2013 4:00 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote:
Yes, if there was a text of this it would be nice... I found this:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fictionalism-mathematics/
A fictionalist account holds that some things are fictional, i.e.
don't exist even though their complete description is self-
consistent. Everythingists apparently reject this idea. Platonists
seem to equate 'true' with 'exists'. If you believe 17 is prime you
must believe 17 exists. I think this is wrong. If you believe that
a flying pink elephant is pink, must you believe a flying pink
elephant exists?
Brent
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