2006-11-07 15:51:54 · 4 answers · asked by The Knowledge Server 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I hade logical modality .
There seems to be NOTHING more necessary than what's directly in front of me, clearly perceived, being the case. The future is possible, the present and past are not. We might think of counterfactuals about the present "I could be drinking coffee", but it doesn't change the fact that there is no coffee here. In fact, it's impossible that there could be coffee here now while the world stays the same. "If the world were different..." But it isn't.
The chances of a coin landing heads is 50/50. The chances a coin LANDED heads after it has already landed tails is 0.
What is represented seems necessary, impossible to be otherwise. Possibility ends after now.
2006-11-07 23:40:26 · answer #1 · answered by -.- 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For a question with minimal info, I would just "go with it" via intuition about what I think you want to hear. What could be represented are the possibilities. The word possibility can itself conjure up many ideas: possibilities in mathematics, both finite and infinite, possibilities of future for prediction purposes, possibilities that are timeless, possibilities that can play out empirically, and possibilties that are ideas/concepts (including those not yet tried empirically). What could be represented thus, is almost infinite in possibility, but what is reprented is a scenario of the pool of what could be represented (now, what could have been represented). What is represented is also limited by the medium of presentation.
If you use your intuitive powers, I am sure you can think through this more... I just realized really do INDEED love philosophy and I could really think things through and utilize both reason and intution effectively. Don't you think imagination is what could be represented, and is represented if it passes through your head understandably?
But the equivalence is false one, if you present it mathematically like that. The possibilities were extracted into causative factors and then the result. But as you know, cause does not equal result. It's linear that way. But what you are thinking of is not linear. This topic requires a dissertation. Is this your dissertation?
2006-11-08 02:44:39 · answer #2 · answered by summation 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My opinion is you don't have a real question here!
If it could be represented, it is represented. If they were equal it would just be presented!
2006-11-08 01:53:19 · answer #3 · answered by David A 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is a thing equivalent to its "exact" description?
Very interesting thought.
2006-11-08 02:07:31 · answer #4 · answered by DREAMER 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋