Re: Vimalakirti Machines

2006-03-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 10-mars-06, à 01:43, Tom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) a écrit : Bruno wrote: So the divine intellect of the Vimalakirti Machine will contains all proposition of the form: ~Bwhatever: more example: ~B(an asteroid will not hurt earth in 2102) ~B(an asteroid will hurt earth in 2102) ~B(1+1 =

Re: Vimalakirti Machines

2006-03-09 Thread daddycaylor
Bruno wrote: So the divine intellect of the Vimalakirti Machine will contains all proposition of the form: ~Bwhatever: more example: ~B(an asteroid will not hurt earth in 2102) ~B(an asteroid will hurt earth in 2102) ~B(1+1 = 4) ~B(1+1 ? 4) ~B(PI is rational) ~B(PI is not rational)

Re: Vimalakirti Machines

2006-03-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
Solution: The terrestrial hypostases correspond to discourses of the Vimalakirty machine, where a discourse is defined by the set of propositions asserted by the machine. Now the machine says nothing, so that each terrestrial hypostases are empty. The divine hypostases are given by some

Re: Vimalakirti Machines

2006-03-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Tom, Le 02-mars-06, à 01:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruno, In this context, what are you taking to be the truth value of the empty set? I have probably been unclear. Truth values apply only to propositions. In other words, how can you say that {Empty set} p = {Empty set} ? I

Re: Vimalakirti Machines

2006-03-01 Thread daddycaylor
Bruno, In this context, what are you taking to be the truth value of the empty set? In other words, how can you say that {Empty set} p = {Empty set} ? I thought that you were taking to operate on propositions, not sets. Doesn't {Empty set} p mean saying nothing in conjunction with the truth