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A question about intuition wrt. vacuous truths
Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 2:06 am
by Ari Rahikkala
Suppose I have an urn capable of holding blue and red balls. It currently contains no balls. How would you answer these questions:
Are all of the balls in the urn blue?
Are any of the balls in the urn blue?
Re: A question about intuition wrt. vacuous truths
Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 4:39 am
by Scott of Hyperborea
1. Yes, but if you try to use this in a natural conversation, I reserve the right to smack you
2. No
Note: intuition possibly not valid as it was filtered through class discussions on existential import several years ago.
Re: A question about intuition wrt. vacuous truths
Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 11:04 am
by Kaiser Mors VI
1. Undefined.
2. Undefined.
Until there is anything in the urn, the answer is undefined. Like dividing by Zero. My first reaction was to say No to both.
Re: A question about intuition wrt. vacuous truths
Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 12:07 pm
by Malliki Tosha
1. Syntax error
2. Syntax error
Re: A question about intuition wrt. vacuous truths
Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 12:46 pm
by Falkner van der Sluijs
SEGMENTATION FAULT
Re: A question about intuition wrt. vacuous truths
Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 4:57 pm
by Icebreaker
ARI WHAT THE SHIT ARE YOU DOING, GET BACK TO WASTING TIME ON REDDIT.
CHRIST YOU'RE BAD AT THIS "SELF-IMPOSED EXILE" THING
Re: A question about intuition wrt. vacuous truths
Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 10:22 am
by Ryan
The balls are neither blue or red, but purple.
Re: A question about intuition wrt. vacuous truths
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 4:36 pm
by Shyriath
The extant colors are to be determined by simple majority vote of the Landsraad.

Re: A question about intuition wrt. vacuous truths
Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 3:54 am
by Maksym Hadjimehmetov
The urn explodes from confusion?
Re: A question about intuition wrt. vacuous truths
Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 9:33 am
by CJ Miller
The quantity and color of said balls are to be decided by the
