Sat 24 Jul, 2010 03:14 pm - I would be interested to know your latest view about the problems associated with causality, arising from our discussion on page 94. One point of contention was the difficulty of ascribing a... (view)
Fri 23 Jul, 2010 07:54 am - [quote="fast"]Curiously he wondered and asked, "what kind of logic are you talking about that allows the inclusion of physically impossible events among that which is logically... (view)
Thu 22 Jul, 2010 02:55 pm - [quote="fast"]Assuming that there are 1a) statements about laws of nature and 1B) laws of nature, (inventions and discoveries respectively), and assuming that there are 2a) laws of... (view)
Tue 20 Jul, 2010 08:01 am - [quote="kennethamy"]What I don't understand is whether anyone is claiming that it is logically impossible that the crash might not have happened? That to assert the non-occurrence of... (view)
Tue 20 Jul, 2010 06:46 am - [quote="wayne"] For example, I'll begin with the air disaster at Tenerife as the event.
FAA investigators have already shown that the collision of airliner A with airliner B... (view)
Tue 20 Jul, 2010 06:13 am - [quote="Zetherin"][quote="ughaibu"]These weren't proposed as negative causes, they're negative conditions in a (possibly infinite) list of conditions required for... (view)
Mon 19 Jul, 2010 08:50 pm - I was not arguing for or against determinism. I was just trying to summarise what I believe to be ughaibu's argument, as some were having difficulty in understanding it. Ughaibu will no... (view)
Mon 19 Jul, 2010 03:46 pm - [quote="Zetherin"]The cause of the cold was still the virus.[/quote]
The [i]main[/i] cause of the cold was the virus. But there were other causes also - some positive (the person had a... (view)
Mon 19 Jul, 2010 03:14 pm - [quote="kennethamy"]I wonder who would think that viruses do not cause colds because if someone invented a vaccine against the cold, people who took the vaccine would not catch cold?... (view)
