@MemberOfSpecies I would have thought you can’t ever take a mathematical thing to be a cause… what would be an example?
@MemberOfSpecies Yes; the Kripke framework is non-probabilistic, in fact. it’s just about what “could have been different.” But math couldnt
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@Meaningness What about math versus physics makes it principledly different? -
@MemberOfSpecies Kripke semantics is a model theory, so a possible world has to be (represented as) an actual mathematical object. - 2 more replies
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@Meaningness Math couldn't mathematically have been different, but then again, physics couldn't physically have been different. -
@MemberOfSpecies Actually, my understanding is that lots of physics still looks uncomfortably arbitrary to theoretical physicists. - 1 more reply
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