ABSTRACT
It might be said of cyberspace that it is a space constrained only by the limits of technology and imagination; and although this constraint is permanent, it is nevertheless fluid. Consequently, within these acknowledged parameters, cyberspace really does appear to be a space where, virtually, anything is possible. Such a claim is far from hyperbolic, but neither is it literally true; for there are, of course, some obvious exceptions. Even in cyberspace, it is necessarily the case that I am not at the same time all black and all white; neither can I be a married bachelor, or own a four-sided triangle. Two plus two must still equal four, and if all virtual men are mortal and virtual and Socrates is a man, then he too must be mortal.
