On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 02:51:00PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > > But we are always going to have difficulty assigning a truth value > to a counterfactual like: "The present king of France has a beard." >
I would expect that somewhere in the Multiverse, France still has a king in 2015, and has a beard, and somewhere else where he doesn't. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
