On 2/27/2022 12:52 PM, John Clark wrote:
On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 2:50 PM Brent Meeker <meekerbr...@gmail.com>
wrote:
/<"Possible" is a rather ill defined concept and "everything
possible" is even worse. /
I would say a useful definition of "possible" is the set of things or
relationships that do not produce contradictions.
How could a set of things produce contradictions. Contradiction is a
relation of propositions, not things. I'm surprised that you a strong
advocate of examples over definitions would not have noticed that there
are no examples of contradictory things.
Brent
I would also say it's easier to describe everything than to describe a
particular smaller subset of the possible, for example less
information is required to describe all the infinite digits of π than
to describe only the first trillion digits of π and no more. And
nobody knows if the laws of physics that are different from those that
we observe (such as by having different fundamental constants) produce
contradictions or not, nobody knows if that's possible.
John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis
<https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>
gco
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