Feb 12, 2006 20:40
Gordon says:
I see a beer infront of me
Gordon says:
Because I see it, I understand it is there
Gordon says:
Because I understand it is there, it is necessary for it to exist.
Gordon says:
Otherwise I couldn't understand it
Gordon says:
Necessity
mogg says:
That's perfect!
mogg says:
Put it in beer terms!
Gordon says:
If the beer existed in any other possible world, it would be understood differently. All the specifics that make it beer to me, make it beer. Were one of them to change, the possible world may still interpret it as beer, but I will never know because I'm in this world, not that one.
Gordon says:
It's all beer,
Gordon says:
because beer = good
mogg says:
And this is all Lewis?
Gordon says:
so it's all good
Gordon says:
that's Lewis
Gordon says:
Chapter 25
mogg says:
Beer has the property of good.
Gordon says:
Which is a universal
Gordon says:
and a form
Gordon says:
Which is Armstrong, combined with Plato