That is not what the word possible means and not the claim that's being made. "...then it by chance is false" is the issue. There is nothing to justify the assumption of a chance; as a result the assumption possibility fails; implying but not proving by your standard a necessity. — Cheshire
It seems like your misrepresenting his argument.Yes, I know - he, not I, is 'arguing' that I am contradicting myself. So, he - not I - is 'arguing' that as I think the law of non-contradiction is contingent, then I am committed to thinking it is actually false. So it is he, not I, who does not understand the notion of metaphysical possibility. — Bartricks
Impossible to be otherwise is pretty close to necessary. — Cheshire
I haven't changed the terminology. You are changing the topic from metaphysics to epistemology. Now, you tell me how you know the law of non-contradiction is true - i mean, you think it is true, right? - and that'll almost certainly be how I know it is true as well.
Then you tell me how you know that it is 'necessarily' true, and I will show you that it is contingently so. — Bartricks
It seems like your misrepresenting his argument. — Cheshire
I know the law of non-contradiction is necessary....for rational discussion. I make no claims beyond that. You cannot say the law of non-contradiction is contingent by saying something self-contradictory; to make sense what you say must itself be a non-contradiction: which rather proves the point. — Janus
So, your saying it is metaphysically false because it can hold a truth value. — Cheshire
How do you establish possibility without deducing an alternative state of affairs? The only reason I can imagine is because it has a truth value. I'm not saying it is a good reason. — Cheshire
For the third or fourth time, how do you God didn't make contradictions true for everyone except Bartricks? — Gregory
Yet your God of Contradictions can do this. — Gregory
How can you be sure of your own thoughts if you are contingent? — Gregory
Yet you say you are Cartesian. — Gregory
So every second that follows in the future has a 50/50 chance of staying consistent? — Gregory
And what about the past? If God can do contradictions "she" can make the past such as that you were never born, nursed, or grew up. — Gregory
Why would it be 50/50? I have a coffee every morning. I don't have to. I just do. But the chance that I will have one tomorrow is not 50/50, but about 90/10. — Bartricks
Yes. Powerful, eh? — Bartricks
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