[lit-ideas] Re: Is 'All men are immortal' unscientific?

  • From: "William Ball" <ballnw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:51:23 -0400

Woody Allen writes that the idea of his mortality doesn't bother him too
much,
he just doesn't want to be around when it happens.

William Ball
 



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Walter writes

> In the latter case, the claim says that if you find some entity that 
> is mortal, it's not possible for that entity to be a man. As a 
> transcendental claim, it expresses a universal and necessary truth; 
> being outside the realm of contingency it entails that no empirical 
> inquiry is required, or possible.

I wonder if the words 'mortal' and 'not possible' all belong in this 
sentence.

Didn't Janacek write an opera about all this stuff?

Robert Paul
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