I swear, philosophy is just throwing arbitrary labels on things without truly testing them. What the fuck is a "substance"
It is a label ;)
The Multiverse of 1686
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Re: The Multiverse of 1686
#12It is really a stretch to say that Leibniz's "best of all possible worlds" argument means he believed in the existence of a multiverse. The centerpiece of the argument is that, of all the potential worlds, this is the one that has to be the best, because it's the one that God created. If the actual set of possible worlds were all created, then there is no reason to believe that the one we exist in is special in any w…
I don't know... some days I find gravity repulsive just on principal!
Re: The Multiverse of 1686
#13I swear, philosophy is just throwing arbitrary labels on things without truly testing them. What the fuck is a "substance"
You are, in fact, right; but "substance" is a terrible example as it's been a technical term for the two-and-a-half millennia.