On 3/10/2021 3:52 PM, Tomas Pales wrote:
On Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 12:15:43 AM UTC+1 Brent wrote: On 3/10/2021 2:41 PM, Tomas Pales wrote:On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 6:29:13 PM UTC+1 Brent wrote: On 3/10/2021 1:18 AM, Tomas Pales wrote: Then you've either (1) changed the meaning of "real" existence (2) changed the meaning of possible or (3) gone mad. As I said, possible means identical to itself.I know you said it, but that doesn't make it so. Is it possible that there is a an even number greater than 2 which is not the sum of two primes? Is it real? Is it possible that there is a cardinal number between aleph0 and aleph1? Is it real? If you flip a coin is it possible it will come up heads? What's the difference between "possible" and "necessary".If there is a contradiction in the definition of an object, that means that the law of identity is violated and the object is not identical to itself and hence is not possible. There is no difference between possible and necessary in the absolute sense because every possible object exists necessarily
You're avoiding the questions. Your coin coming up heads isn't an object. Neither is the even number that is not the sum of two primes. And as Bruno pointed out "object" is not well defined. Is John Clark an object, or as he puts it "a verb".
in reality as a whole. The distinction between possible and necessary is used when talking about something that exists only in some possible worlds versus something that exists in every possible world, respectively.
But if something is not necessary then there are world's that are same except that the something exists in one and not the other. Is it identical to itself if it doesn't satisfy the "exists" predicate?
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