Indeed. Thank you for making the points you did in the first paragraph; that’s more or less what I was making note of (in perhaps too-general terms). I was going to respond to another post that falsely contended that just because there are two states that that necessarily exhausts all of the possibilities that obtain (as ens rationis), since the state of the cat as such is not discrete, but also continuous.
I would not be so quick to dismiss MW on account of the heuristic value of the idea of multiverses (and the successive hierarchy of universes), because rationality cannot be used to dismiss the preeminent possibility of any possibility. Anyway, there’s a pretty interesting article on arXiv by R. Vaas about it: http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0726 .
Indeed. Thank you for making the points you did in the first paragraph; that’s more or less what I was making note of (in perhaps too-general terms). I was going to respond to another post that falsely contended that just because there are two states that that necessarily exhausts all of the possibilities that obtain (as ens rationis), since the state of the cat as such is not discrete, but also continuous.
I would not be so quick to dismiss MW on account of the heuristic value of the idea of multiverses (and the successive hierarchy of universes), because rationality cannot be used to dismiss the preeminent possibility of any possibility. Anyway, there’s a pretty interesting article on arXiv by R. Vaas about it: http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0726 .