February 29th, 2008
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Tags: argument, ontology, philosophy

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It’s like battleship, but more words and usually fewer boats

its like battleship but more -isms like acutalism and possibleism

Dialog:
- Attack
  - Port - Isn't it ridiculous to suggest that possible worlds exist?
- Counterattack - returns fire with another question.
  - Starboard - People believe sets of numbers exist without too much trouble, why not sets of possibilities?
- Counterattack – or you could call it a “counter-counterattack”
  - Port - But, don't numbers "exist" in a different sense than you or I do?
- Hit - The Clarification Question, to respond one often must sacrifice the offensive.
  - Starboard - Are you arguing that numbers require the mind in order to exist?
- Note: Resorting to a vacuous counterattack like "what do you think?" is equivalent to surrender.
- No matter how sassy you are able to make it sound.

One Comment:

thad Says:
February 28th, 2008 at 9:50 pm

Just in case you were wondering, the view that possible worlds exist, in the same way that this world exists, is called “actualism.”

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