(May 24, 2016 at 11:01 am)Ignorant Wrote:(May 24, 2016 at 10:20 am)dyresand Wrote: 1. You are using the argument from contingency.. don't do that but ill humor you anyway.
No I am not, actually. I am inviting you to distinguish between two sorts of events: necessary and contingent. Consider a fruit tree: does a fruit tree depend on the presence of sunlight to make fruit? If it does, then fruit-making is contingent. If a fruit tree doesn't depend on anything to make fruit, then it makes fruit necessarily. Which one do you think it is?
You neglect the case wherein the fruit tree depends on something that is not itself contingent. In that case, it makes or doesn't make fruit necessarily.
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