Constant2 comments on Possibility and Could-ness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Constant2 15 June 2008 09:10:41AM 0 points [-]

Joseph - "Choice" is, I should think, more like "fire" and "heat" than like "phlogiston" and "caloric". We have abandoned the last two as outdated scientific theories, but have not abandoned the first two even though they are much older concepts, presumably because they do not represent scientific theories but rather name observable mundane phenomena.