On Wednesday, February 25, 2015, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote:
> Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > >> On Wednesday, February 25, 2015, Bruce Kellett <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> First person indeterminacy is just another name for "in-principle >> unknowable"! >> >> No it's not. It provides an explanation of how the world can be >> completely deterministic but to you as an observer within it appear truly >> random, so that not even God would be able to tell you what you will >> experience next. >> > > That seems to me to be a very good case of something being "in-principle > unknowable". If it is not "in-principle unknowable", the onus is on you to > spell out the principles and circumstances in which the time of the > radioactive decay of a particular atom is knowable in advance. > > Bruce > Yes, but FPI is not "another name for in principle unknowable". Whether a computer program will halt may be in principle unknowable, but it's not due to the FPI. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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/d/optout.
