Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Pirates of the Caffeination

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thus spake "Glotmorf":
> On 3/9/03 at 1:29 AM Daniel Lepage wrote:
> 
> >On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 02:07  PM, Baron von Skippy wrote:
> >
> >>> > E.7. The Improbable
> >>> > There exists a Passable SO called the Improbable. At the beginning 
> >>> of each
> >>> > nweek, if the Improbable exists, the Improbable throws a Can of 
> >>> Whoopass at
> >>>
> >>> You just said it exists. Why bother with the 'if', then?
> >> -Because it is possible for it not to be around. I'll replace that 
> >> with "if the Imp. is on the grid," perhaps.-
> >
> >I think we need a way of specifying an object as something which could 
> >exist, but doesn't necessarily have to...
> 
> Destructible objects versus indestructible objects?
> 
> 						Glotmorf
> 

Necessary vs. contingent objects.

-- 
J.


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