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Re: [ontolog-forum] {Disarmed} Reality and Truth

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From: Waclaw Kusnierczyk <Waclaw.Marcin.Kusnierczyk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:12:59 +0200
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replace 'partic' with 'steve'.  sorry.    (01)

Waclaw Kusnierczyk wrote:
> 
> Kathryn Blackmond Laskey wrote:
>> Waclaw seems to be articulating a many-worlds ontology.  In a 
>> many-worlds ontology, there are multiple concurrent "possible 
>> worlds." For each of us, it seems as if there is one "actual world," 
>> but it is because we cannot see the other "possible worlds".  There 
>> are quantum physicists who subscribe to such an ontology.  They don't 
>> think quantum events "actually happen." Rather, we experience the 
>> events that "seem to" happen in our local world, but all the possible 
>> events "actually happen" in some world.
>>
> 
> just to clarify:  i did not say *that*.  i guess the answer to my 
> question would be 'the semantics of modal logic as seen by a possibilist 
> is wrong', perhaps.  i do not subscribe to the view attributed to me 
> above, and, personally, i prefer the realist ontology.  but, sure 
> enough, this is just a matter of opinion.
> 
> on the side, i think the discussion between pat and patric might be the 
> result of different interpretations of the term 'reality'.  while pat 
> pretty clearly seems to mean *the real world*, patric may mean *a view 
> of the real world*.  after all, we do use the term 'virtual reality', 
> which is suggestive of there being alternative realities created (in our 
> mind?) by whatever technology is used for that purpose.  on the realist 
> view and the corresponding reading of 'reality', there can be no virtual 
> reality.
> 
> 
> vQ
>  
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