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Posted by Mick Butler [81.118.4.4 - Sunfilter1] on 29 September 2004 at 06.26.57 ZuluTime:
In Reply to: Now back to my regularly scheduled bad fanfic -nt- posted by Hunter on 18 June 2003 at 23.34.07 ZuluTime:
Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can ever be made.
-- Immanuel Kant
cialis "It could be that Walter's horse has wings" does not imply that there is
any such animal as Walter's horse, only that there could be; but "Walter's
horse is a thing which could have wings" does imply Walter's horse's
existence. But the conjunction "Walter's horse exists, and it could be
that Walter's horse has wings" still does not imply "Walter's horse is a
thing that could have wings", for perhaps it can only be that Walter's
horse has wings by Walter having a different horse. Nor does "Walter's
horse is a thing which could have wings" conversely imply "It could be that
Walter's horse has wings"; for it might be that Walter's horse could only
have wings by not being Walter's horse.
I would deny, though, that the formula [Necessarily if some x has property P
then some x has property P] expresses a logical law, since P(x) could stand
for, let us say "x is a better logician than I am", and the statement "It is
necessary that if someone is a better logician than I am then someone is a
better logician than I am" is false because there need not have been any me.
-- A.N. Prior, "Time and Modality"
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