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That's what I meant. Read the whole thing in that light.

The second one by no means follows from the first. Cause and effect do not necessarily bring about order. Order can be had without cause and effect. T...

This suggests God must have made this planet orderly for us. If no God, we'd have been stuck on a place that is disorderly like Venus perhaps (lacking...

Is that last line an assertion or a conclusion? If the latter, it doesn't follow.

The tidying of the universe indeed does not require work. Instead of requiring energy, it releases it. Hydroelectric dams harness the negative work re...

Entropy is a measure of energy available for doing work, as opposed to energy not thus available. It requires work to make a room tidy, but not to mak...

It requires work to make the room tidy, but matter strewn about randomly would result in far more energy available for work, mostly due to potential e...

The tidy room is a lower entropy state compared to the messy room. The more ordered universe is higher entropy than the a universe with stuff strewn r...

Your statement is dead on except the last bit about not having a choice in the matter. That comes first, and then the analogy fits. Choose that God ex...

Every example above is a linear case. Complex numbers have magnitude and can be meaningfully added and subtracted from each other. I can add and subtr...

My gripe was this violated the definition of identical. Worlds do not have coordinates, not even arbitrarily assigned abstract ones like you have with...

I didn't say it wasn't a physical world. I said the relationship between this world and another one is neither temporal nor spatial. It can be said th...

Physical space has no coordinate system except an arbitrary one assigned in an abstract way. Physical space sans matter is not space at all since matt...

Worlds have positions?? Can I say which is left of the other? Can these four identical worlds be put in some kind of order? You're assigning nonexiste...

I think the decay case can be swept under the rug saying there are infinite, but as many universes on one side of the half life as on the other. Mathe...

I replied a day early. Below is a better critique, but first: This is a cheap shot on my part. My car is four wheeled, but it has a fifth as a spare. ...

It seems to me that you eliminate the existence of nothing without explicit statement of contradiction. So four-leaf clovers with three leaves don't e...

The thought of a unicorn is not a unicorn, and doesn't mean a unicorn is consistent. The thought produces a memory of an artificial human experience o...

Just because existing things must be self consistent doesn't imply all self-consistent things must exist. I've been exploring the implications of the ...

I thought you had equated existence to 'logically consistent', not to 'something, not nothing', which is a weaker, circular definition. I've spent qui...

Well, people in history questioning their own existence (Descartes most famously) cannot start from a begging position of considering nonexistence abs...

I didn't assert existence yet. Suppose I am self-contradictory and thus don't exist. I am not identical to myself then, but how would I know that? You...

The naming creates the abstract grouping at best. Sure, the name makes no physical changes to the atoms, events and whatnot that comprise the group it...

Mathematicians are not making a reference to the largest number. Only way? There is nothing possible yet unnamed, totally not known by any entity capa...

I find this true, but circular. A thing exists if it is part of the context of all existents. That's just a tautology. But delimited by some objective...

Hits (nonexistent!) 'like' button. I'm apparently looking for something useful. Just for my $0.02: I think love is a physical thing in the same catego...

It seems things exist against a background of other existents, not against nonexistent things. So a horse is a horse because it is not a shrub, not be...

OK, that makes sense. I have five apples here, and an identical number of oranges over there. The oranges does not represent a new five, even if it is...

This seems only a different context, and a different designation of which contexts are included in objective existence, a term with which I have yet t...

I didn't say 'strand'. The DNA of twins is identical, consisting only of information, not particular details of a strand, which has properties like po...

Linguistic ascent is the worst. Not looking for how existence is used in our language. Almost all the confusion in philosophy, especially in forum dis...

I don't think FOL has anything to say about ontology. Not sure where that discussion is intended to go. ? means something other than an ontological as...

This doesn't help if something is logically consistent but nonexistent. I questioned that above when I cannot come up with an example of a consistent ...

Say what it means. I cannot read the notation. For some x, Fx is true. Not sure what the a is. It being a rule of first order logic doesn't tell me wh...

This topic is not about demonstrating existence, or worse, defining existence in terms of demonstrability, which reduces to idealism.

Kind of followed by my understanding of the last line of Owen's post. So perhaps I misunderstood. I'm trying to get a clarification. Maybe the four-le...

So having four legs is something true of unicorns, therefore unicorns exist. I actually am not far from that logic, but I wanted to make sure you're s...

But what is (some F)? Perhaps I am just behind in translation of predicate notation. The F seems to be the context, and I have no problem with the sta...

Gave all this several more days to work it over. Had to get this one out of the way: Well, I am not willing to accept this, so hardly tautological. Ev...

The antinatalist must be pretty happy. There are billions of non-actualized potential people for every actualized one.

I thought of a better word than 'set' or 'structure'. Streetlight brought it up in the causation thread, and it is simply 'context'. A thing is actual...

Seems like pretty good reasoning at first glance, an argument for a lack of distinction. But can we apply this logic to a horse? Against what backgrou...

OK, I seem to be one post behind all the time. Yes, within this universe, contingent forces play out the possibilities into actualities. Hence a tulip...

Sounds pretty clean to me. This presumes that it does 'go from undefined to defined', which seems contradictory since it would imply states and time a...

Hard to. The set of possible structures, which seems strange without a set of rules about why one might not be possible. The set of structures resulti...

It seems I misinterpreted your meaning of U. You define it (tentatively) as everything that exists in the sort of way I am seeking, not as 'our univer...

Agree with pretty much all of this, but since these quantum worlds are part the one structure (our spacetime), they're really another part of the same...

Wanting to uphold that is well and nice, but so many paths keep coming back to the idealism for which I express my distaste. So in the interest of not...

javra, getting to yours. I too have finite time to digest it all.

Wrong kind of existence, but I see what you're saying. Given the right kind of existence, I'm not convinced that the logic here applies. I exist (wron...