From: Bill Roh (billroh@churchofvirus.com)
Date: Wed Jan 23 2002 - 12:52:42 MST
Hey Blunderov - just a note about your first observation: "nobody livesd
forever".
I'll challenge that one - last time I checked, there are more people alive today
than have lived throughout all of time. This means that less than half of the
popupation, over all this time, has actually died. Pretty inconclusive if you
ask me.
wait, wait
I never thought the universe was infinite. It cannot be - why do you say it is?
I don't think science thinks the Universe is infinite either, does it? It cannot
be infinite by definition - its a closed volume. And sense?!? when does the
Universe make sense? C'mon, quantum entanglement makes no sense to anyone not
trained, and I am not sure they are sure. Heck, we were sure black holes existed
just a few days ago, but new ideas say - no way, Jose.
but for what it matters, I get your point.
Bill
Blunderov wrote:
> The notion of a priori is quite strong medicine.
>
> Take the statement "nobody lives forever". There is no possible way of
> verifying this by experience but we are as certain of this fact as makes no
> difference. How can we be so certain? Well, absolutely nothing in our
> experience of the world allows us to falsify this claim. We know the
> statement to be true, a priori.
>
> "Space is infinite". We can, by definition, never travel or see far enough
> to be able to verify this by observation. But for us, there is no possible
> way the universe could make sense if it were not so. We know it is true, a
> priori.
>
> There is also the interesting case of numbers in general and mathematics in
> particular. Some experts in the field assert that all mathematical proofs
> are a priori because they are not verifiable in experience.
>
> In a poetic sense you have the "absolute" proof you seek - pure
> unadulterated knowing; that knowing without which the world would simply not
> make sense.
>
> Regards
>
> Blunderov
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