RE: Necessary Thing
April 21, 2016 at 3:17 am
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2016 at 3:20 am by robvalue.)
You're welcome.
I'm not saying I believe any of what I just said is actually the case, I was making up scenarios.
You could just as easily have an infinite number of different "things", all of which rely on each other for their existence, then there is no one single "thing" that isn't contingent on something else.
Unless you just group everything together and call it one entity, but that kind of defeats the whole purpose of the exercise. Calling everything one thing doesn't make it one thing.
If you go that route, then by definition "everything" can't depend on anything else, because there isn't anything else. But that's just word games.
I must say, this has been way more interesting than most debates I have with theists, thank you. Mostly they try and tell me what I believe, and just just talk nonsense until I get fed up. Then they declare victory.
I'm not saying I believe any of what I just said is actually the case, I was making up scenarios.
You could just as easily have an infinite number of different "things", all of which rely on each other for their existence, then there is no one single "thing" that isn't contingent on something else.
Unless you just group everything together and call it one entity, but that kind of defeats the whole purpose of the exercise. Calling everything one thing doesn't make it one thing.
If you go that route, then by definition "everything" can't depend on anything else, because there isn't anything else. But that's just word games.
I must say, this has been way more interesting than most debates I have with theists, thank you. Mostly they try and tell me what I believe, and just just talk nonsense until I get fed up. Then they declare victory.
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