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“World A: Contains nothing but a single being. World B: Contains nothing but a single being, that is a different being than the one in World A. Do you have any objection to either of these worlds? Each seems entirely possible. Unless you can come up with some sort of objection to THEM, we’ve got…
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Continue ReadingIntro and types I’ve been paying very close attention as of late to a special type of discourse: Namely, about what is possible and what is impossible. This study has led me to be very careful about my language use when speaking of such things because there are multiple types of possibilities: Logical, epistemic, physical,…
Continue ReadingThis is a translation of my earlier article on the subject. Link. The modal fallacy By Emil Kirkegaard, Deleet.dk This fallacy is rather common among persons who are not well versed in logic (especially modal logic). Consider these two not logically identical sentences: I) If there exists at least one subject S that knows which…
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