Re: existence of stars

2001-06-02 Thread Brent Meeker
On 02-Jun-01, Saibal Mitra wrote: > > Yes but shouldn't all the ``oppelbrothersisters´´ be identified? > > Saibal I wouldn't think so - since they are ex hypothesi in different universes. For a good fictionalization of these ideas, read Greg Egan's novel "Permutation City". Brent Meeker "Utop

Re: existence of stars

2001-06-02 Thread Saibal Mitra
Bruno wrote: > > Saibal wrote: (complete message below for the FORers) > > >Can't we prove that stars (and for that matter anything we observe) exist > >in at least some universes? > > But does "some universes" exists ? To tell you frankly I have a problem with > the word "universe". I guess yo

Re: existence of stars

2001-06-02 Thread Saibal Mitra
You'll have to ask Bruno, because that's what he wrote. > On 01-Jun-01, Saibal Mitra wrote: > > > BTW, do you know that Godel wrote a formalisation in the modal logic > > system S5 of St. Anselm proof of the existence of God? (I'm not sure > > there is any evidence that Godel takes his proof seri

Re: existence of stars

2001-06-01 Thread Brent Meeker
On 01-Jun-01, Saibal Mitra wrote: > BTW, do you know that Godel wrote a formalisation in the modal logic > system S5 of St. Anselm proof of the existence of God? (I'm not sure > there is any evidence that Godel takes his proof seriously, but it is > a nice little piece of exact and very modest t

Re: existence of stars

2001-06-01 Thread Marchal
gt;> i'm afraid Russell Standish is right here. >>> If God see stars and if God exists, then indeed stars exists, but >>> nobody has ever give any evidence for stars or gods. Alas. >>> (Independently of the question of the existence of Gods, or stars). >>> >

existence of stars

2001-06-01 Thread Saibal Mitra
f the existence of Gods, or stars). >> >> You can only prove (following indeed St. Anselm) that if God exists >> and if stars exists, then God sees stars. Charles Goodwin comments: >Who says there's no evidence for the existence of stars? I for one am a >convinced stell