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Article #311Re: God's and Zorn's existence.
From: Torkel Franzen
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 03:38
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 03:38
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In article <1992Sep12.190822.90079@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> kevin@vaxc.cc.
mon ash.edu.au writes:
>There are no non-trivial a-priori statements that can be made about the
>real world.
>Here, a-priori and trivial are a bit vague, but I'll take a-priori as
>intuitively understood by a philospher, and trivial as understood by a
>mathematician.
....
>It seems (though I may be wrong) that a few people disagree. Surely,
>in order to maintain credibility, such a person must produce an example.
OK, I'll take it upon myself to hold that there are very many highly
non-trivial apriori statements that can be made about the real world.
For example: there exist infinitely many Martians.
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Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!sics.se!torkel From: torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen) Subject: Re: God's and Zorn's existence. In-Reply-To: kevin@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au's message of 12 Sep 92 19:08:21 +1000 Message-ID: <TORKEL.92Sep13043823@bast.sics.se> Sender: news@sics.se Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista References: <1992Sep12.190822.90079@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 03:38:23 GMT Lines: 15