On Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 6:11:49 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > > On 26 Feb 2020, at 21:36, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < > [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > > > > > On 2/26/2020 2:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >>> Being sure of that sentence is true, "Dr Watson was a friend of > Sherlock Holmes." doesn't mean the things named in the sentence exist. > >> > >> It certainly means that Watson and Homes exist, in some sense. The > question is “is that sense interesting with respect to our goal of > explaining "everything” (matter and consciousness) in a coherent way? > > > > They exist in exactly the same way arithmetic and Turing machines exist. > > > Really? > > The difference is that arithmetic is used by all physicists, > mathematicians, economists, and that if you are mistaken about their > relations, your rocket might blow up, or miss the moon. > > But if you are wrong about Watson or Holmes, you might just get a bad note > at your English literature course. > > Bruno > > > What could be a "wrong" thesis about Watson and/or Holmes?
(Think of a young Derrida writing a school paper.) @philipthrift > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/23b30502-5d5d-4230-ae21-44cf0e00776f%40googlegroups.com.
