On 6/7/2013 10:41 PM, 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).
The belief "a flying pink elephant is pink" is tautologically true
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:15 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> 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
it's true that 17 is prime you must believe 17 exists. If you believe
that a
flying pink elephant is pink, must you believe a flying pink elephant
exists? I
think this is wrong.
Brent
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