thomblake comments on The Useful Idea of Truth - Less Wrong

77 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 October 2012 06:16PM

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Comment author: thomblake 02 October 2012 04:04:29PM 1 point [-]

I think it loses its force entirely in that case. Nisan's proposal was a counterfactual, and Yvain's counter was a possible world where that counterfactual cannot obtain. Since there is no such possible world, the objection falls flat.

Comment author: [deleted] 02 October 2012 04:09:36PM 2 points [-]

Since there is no such possible world

If this claim is meaningful, isn't Nisan's proposal false?

Comment author: thomblake 02 October 2012 06:01:43PM 0 points [-]

No. Why would that be?