Re:Scientists report fundamental asymmetry between heating a...
by skissane on Monday January 22, 2024 @11:01PM
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Are the events of the short story Sylvan’s Box [0] impossible?
Most people will say “yes”, but dialetheists [1] (or at least some of them) will disagree. Since I’m not certain those dialetheists are wrong, I can’t be certain the events of the story are impossible (I have no trouble saying they are astronomically unlikely, but impossibility and astronomical unlikelihood are strictly speaking distinct)
Most people will say “yes”, but dialetheists [1] (or at least some of them) will disagree. Since I’m not certain those dialetheists are wrong, I can’t be certain the events of the story are impossible (I have no trouble saying they are astronomically unlikely, but impossibility and astronomical unlikelihood are strictly speaking distinct)
[0] https://projecteuclid.org/journals/notre-dame-journal-of-for...
[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dialetheism/