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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