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To: tortoise
No, since there are any number of ways imaginable that things could have been. Yet there is only one way that things are.
300 posted on 02/06/2002 9:54:40 AM PST by Dales
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To: Dales
No, since there are any number of ways imaginable that things could have been. Yet there is only one way that things are.

The number of imaginable ways has no relation to the number of actually possible ways. What we can conceive of is a (very large) superset of that which is possible. The denominator is determined by what is actually possible, not what we can imagine is possible. To put it another way, imagine trying to statistically analyze any ordinary phenomenon where you had to consider not just what is actually possible, but everything you could imagine is possible no matter how absurd. A meaningful analysis will never result from such a standard.

302 posted on 02/06/2002 10:07:06 AM PST by tortoise
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