billswift comments on A note on hypotheticals - Less Wrong

19 Post author: PhilGoetz 07 August 2009 06:56PM

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Comment author: billswift 07 August 2009 09:46:50PM 0 points [-]

I think the most interesting hypotheticals are those we do not yet know whether or not they hold.

Untrue means it is not factual, though it could have been in the past or the future or in another location. Impossible means it could not occur in out universe (at least we do not think it could occur given our current understanding of our universe).