Jack comments on Light Arts - Less Wrong

13 Post author: Alicorn 06 November 2009 03:54AM

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Comment author: Jack 07 November 2009 11:05:58PM 1 point [-]

'Descriptions' that claim to describe possible worlds can contain contradictions. But such descriptions don't describe anything, they're just words.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 09 November 2009 04:35:09AM 1 point [-]

'Descriptions' that claim to describe possible worlds can contain contradictions. But such descriptions don't describe anything, they're just words.

Maybe they don't describe anything, but that doesn't make them "just words." To be concrete, QED is, to the best of my ability to wrest information from physicists, inconsistent; yet it remains "the most accurate physical theory."

Comment author: Jack 09 November 2009 04:53:56AM *  1 point [-]

I don't know enough to deal with the counter example. How does QED contradict itself?