Re: Draft Philosophy Paper

2002-02-17 Thread Alastair Malcolm
Thanks for your comments - the 'difficulty' that you refer to is none other than the White Rabbit problem, on which there has been much discussion in this forum. My own approach addresses the problem from the standpoint of all logical possibilities (rather than any particular model or set of

Re: Draft Philosophy Paper

2002-02-17 Thread H J Ruhl
Dear Alastair: I will read your paper, but it seems to me that the no information approach to formulating an Everything precludes selection. Selection assigns a property to a subset of the ensemble that the other members do not share. This destroys the ensemble. Prevalence being a property