Re: Autonomy?

2012-07-04 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: if you duplicated the entire city of Washington and sent one Bruno Marchal to Washington1 and the other Bruno Marchal to Washington2 then there would only be one Bruno Marchal having a Washington experience. No problem with

Re: truth

2012-07-04 Thread Brian Tenneson
The thread is about the possibility of an omnipotent being being able to manipulate what is true. On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Everythinglisters, First post here, and seems fun to get lost reading the discussions from time to

Re: truth

2012-07-04 Thread Synes Thesis
Yup, so anything goes from there. But I fail to see anything convincingly constructive, except maybe a few ideas for fiction, where everybody is omnipotent god that can manipulate truth. So fiction section in bookstore or Amazon? On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Brian Tenneson tenn...@gmail.com

Re: truth

2012-07-04 Thread meekerdb
On 7/4/2012 11:05 AM, Brian Tenneson wrote: The thread is about the possibility of an omnipotent being being able to manipulate what is true. I guess I don't understand that. I can manipulate what's true. It's true I am sitting at a computer - and I can stand up so it would be false. So

Re: truth

2012-07-04 Thread Stephen P. King
Hi, It seems obvious that what is true, as referenced below, is some kind of collection and that it's labeling can easily be seen to not be fixed a priori. We might think of it of aKripke frame http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kripke_semantics and the models have forced truths. The thing