On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 02:34:57PM +1300, LizR wrote: > On 19/02/2014, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Which ones? How can unobserved facts exist? > > You can observe their consequences without observing the facts. E.g. > millions of people have observed that the sun shines without > understanding or knowing about nuclear fusion. >
Yes - but obviously nuclear fusion is an observed fact (somewhere in the Multiverse). > But maybe you mean how can facts exist that are not grounded in > observation at some point? > Yes, that is what I mean. But Brent talked about unobserved facts, so we'd better let him elaborate what he means. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
