Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 22:11:21 01/18/05
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On January 19, 2005 at 00:55:55, Uri Blass wrote: >On January 19, 2005 at 00:31:03, Dann Corbit wrote: > ><snipped> >>That is the difference between CAN and WILL. >> >>Can means it is possible for it to happen. Will means it is going to happen. > > >I also see a difference between can and will and I agree with these definitions >but I understand the word possible in a different way. > >If something will never happen regardless of what we do then I consider it as >impossible and maybe time will end before solving chess >regardless of what we do. I agree with that for the most part, but it will depend on context. If I say "event x cannot happen" then I mean that the probability is zero. The only real way for that to be true is if I have qualified it in terms of an event horizon like time and even then it is not truly impossible unless time travel is impossible and we do not know that for sure either (though it does seem that malicious time travel is impossible due to the grandfather paradox).
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