[Arlo had asked] > 6. Before man (and these levels) how did things respond to DQ?
[Micah] > Your questions make no sense. How can you know something, before you are > there to know > something? I don't understand how to make sense of these questions. Help me. I think we should make sense of statements/questions about what it was like before mankind in just the way we make sense of statements/questions about the future. "It rained on Hawaii before (wo)man existed" means the same as "If (wo)man had been on Hawaii at the time in question, (s)he would have experienced raining." "It will rain on Hawaii" means the same as "If (wo)man will be on Hawaii at the time in question, (s)he will experience raining." That answers the semantic question. The epistemological question is different. Given that it is possible (= makes sense) that it rained on Hawaii before (wo)man existed, what reason could we have for this? Possibly a fossil fern leaf (of the kind of fern which we have found only exists when & where there is rain.) Craig moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
