RE: Necessary Thing
April 21, 2016 at 12:06 pm
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2016 at 12:07 pm by Ignorant.)
(April 21, 2016 at 11:59 am)robvalue Wrote: Erm, OK. Why are we just talking about one helium atom?
Because it is a clear example of a contingent thing. It is something that does not require speculation. It is something readily observable, and science has already been able to tell us several things about it.
Quote:I was talking about an infinite number of distinct things, all contingent on the next thing.
I know, but, as conditions, can that infinite number of distinct things synchronously exist as a finite distinct thing? I'm not sure they can. I think they can only exist as an infinity.
Quote:For example, all of our reality and everything in it being contingent on the existence of its parent reality, which is in turn contingent on its parent reality, and so on, infinitely many times.
Ya sure, that is interesting in its own way, but that is not exactly my consideration. I want to know how things are existing, here and now.
