(November 28, 2017 at 11:58 am)LostLocke Wrote:(November 28, 2017 at 11:50 am)SteveII Wrote: You can't have an infinite regress, so it has to stop somewhere.A positive claim. You need to back this up.
PS, backing it up with "logic" doesn't automatically make it so. You need something demonstrable to show that this is truly the case in reality, and not just an idea or opinion.
No, a metaphysical truth.
First, you cannot have an actual infinite number of things. No such thing. Events are things.
Second, there could always have been one more event in the way distant past and we would never have arrived at today.
You don't get to exclude the use of logic when discussing a metaphysical concept (by definition). Asking for a demonstration there there cannot be a actual infinite is very strange--because there is no example anywhere of an actual infinite number of real things...so...look around?
