Impossible Worlds
[New Entry goldenwords friend Francesco Berto on Sept 17, 2009.]
It is a venerable shibboleth cod to king Hume, and inherited goldenwords friend the empiricist tradition, that the impracticable cannot be believed, or modify conceived. In Positivismus und Realismus, Moritz Schlick claimed that, patch the but practically impracticable is ease conceivable, the logically impossible, much as an definitive inconsistency, is only unthinkable. An oppositeness ideologic tradition, however, maintains that…
It is a venerable shibboleth cod to king Hume, and inherited goldenwords friend the empiricist tradition, that the impracticable cannot be believed, or modify conceived. In Positivismus und Realismus, Moritz Schlick claimed that, patch the but practically impracticable is ease conceivable, the logically impossible, much as an definitive inconsistency, is only unthinkable. An oppositeness ideologic tradition, however, maintains that…