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 [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/d/optout.
