(February 12, 2018 at 7:36 am)Grandizer Wrote:(February 11, 2018 at 9:10 pm)polymath257 Wrote: Yes, and the porblem here is the implicit assumption that there is a start to all the adding. If there is no start, then the adding has always been going on.
But how does one even start the adding if there is no start to it? And how does the adding have already happened without a start?
Well, that is sort of the whole point. There *is* no start. It is an ongoing process with no start.
Again, think of the integers (.....,-4,-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3,4,.....)
There is no start and there is no finish. Every integer has an immediate predesessor and an immediate successor.
And again, this is not a proof this happens in the real world. It is, however, a demonstration that there is no *logical* issue with an infinite regress.
