RE: Necessary Thing
April 22, 2016 at 3:23 am
(This post was last modified: April 22, 2016 at 4:37 am by Ignorant.)
(April 21, 2016 at 7:34 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(April 21, 2016 at 11:51 am)Ignorant Wrote: My objection is that, it seems, that you are suggesting that it is possible for a finite thing (e.g. helium) to be the satisfaction of an infinity of conditions (i.e. other things). I think that is logically self-contradictory.
How many points are on a one centimeter line segment?
Infinity. Consider the two points (A and B) bounding the line segment. Now remove the line connecting them, but keep A and B in the same location. How many points lie between them? Infinity. If an infinity of points remain existing, but the line segment does not exist anymore, then your question is misleading isn't it? The infinity of points you refer to are not actually existing as the finite line segment.
[EDIT] Also, do you know of any actually existing true line segment? (i.e. any actual continuum of things/points between two locations with no empty space between them, but instead an infinity of "things"?)
Quote:Your object that infinity and the finite are necessarily incompatible don't really work, since it is different aspects of things which are either finite or infinite.
See above
