(February 29, 2016 at 4:56 pm)robvalue Wrote: You haven't explained anything about infinite regression. You've just said it's impossible because you say so. Basically you can't imagine it. The fact that you've said it "ends in nothing" means you can't conceptualise it. It doesn't end, or else it wouldn't be infinite.
And no, logic does not teach us about reality on its own. It must be combined with evidence, or else you're exploring an abstract model in your imagination and nothing more. It's why all this kind of stuff has no real world applications ever. It doesn't teach us anything.
If you apply regress on hydrogen atom that would take you to the simpler constituents of which it is made of. Further regress would bring you to a level lower and further regress bring you even to a more simplified version of matter and so on. What is the simplest form of matter? It is NOTHING. Thus infinite regress in material world is an impossibility.
