RE: Natural Order and Science
February 20, 2016 at 11:10 am
(This post was last modified: February 20, 2016 at 11:12 am by robvalue.)
Only theists generally posit an apparent infinite regress problem, and then only theists demand the problem be solved, and only theists special plead in a first step, violating their whole argument.
I say maybe there's no regression external to this reality, maybe there's some, and maybe there's an infinite regress. They would all look the same from our point of view. There's nothing logically inconsistent with an infinite regress, it just seems unintuitive and doesn't sit well with our observations. But if we're talking about the goings on outside this reality, and indeed the very structure of reality upon reality, it's a massive fallacy of composition to just assume it all behaves in the same way.
I can't imagine how it would work, but that doesn't mean it's impossible. It's not surprising I can't imagine it, since we're stuck very much inside one tiny link in the theoretical chain.
I say maybe there's no regression external to this reality, maybe there's some, and maybe there's an infinite regress. They would all look the same from our point of view. There's nothing logically inconsistent with an infinite regress, it just seems unintuitive and doesn't sit well with our observations. But if we're talking about the goings on outside this reality, and indeed the very structure of reality upon reality, it's a massive fallacy of composition to just assume it all behaves in the same way.
I can't imagine how it would work, but that doesn't mean it's impossible. It's not surprising I can't imagine it, since we're stuck very much inside one tiny link in the theoretical chain.
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