On 03/28/10 12:06, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> 1) That reality works substantially in accordance with measurements.
> 
> If you mean "the universe is deterministic", well if that isn't the
> case, it is impossible to know anything, and we can stop now. There, we
> just explored every possible consequence of that hypothesis. Now if we
> assume that the universe *is* deterministic, we have quite a lot of
> consequences to explore - hence, science exists.

	Argument from extreme. The universe could be *mostly* deterministic,
but not entirely.


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