On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 09:40:30AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Of course, we can't be sure when we close ourselves in from any > explanation that is "meaningless".
I'm not so concerned with meaningless. However it must be consistent both with our observations and with itself. That is still an open question. All other proposed mechanisms of ontological closure - eg the God hypothesis are fundamentally meaningless, so there is no loss here. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 8308 3119 (mobile) Mathematics 0425 253119 (") UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks International prefix +612, Interstate prefix 02 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---