RE: Actual Infinity in Reality?
February 23, 2018 at 2:50 pm
(This post was last modified: February 23, 2018 at 2:56 pm by polymath257.)
(February 23, 2018 at 11:17 am)SteveII Wrote:(February 23, 2018 at 9:01 am)polymath257 Wrote: What is the world does it mean to be a metaphysical impossibility except that there is an internal contradiction? Where is the impossibility of having infinitely many precursors? YOu have pointed to none or given a reason to think such is impossible.
Your very sentence "Where is the impossibility of having infinitely many precursors?" contains the metaphysical impossibility. It's that simple. You will never get to the present because there are always and infinite amount of precursors that still need to happen to get to the present.
No, that is NOT the case. We aren't waiting for an infinite number to happen. At any point, there is only a finite wait to any other point. So, for example, between 100 years in the past and now is only a wait of 100 years, not an infinite amount of time. And, at both now and 100 years ago *an infinite amount of time had already passed*. There isn't an infinite amount to still occur to get to the present.
The precursors *have already happened*.
You have *yet* to show what the impossibility is.
(February 23, 2018 at 11:17 am)SteveII Wrote: I have no idea where you are getting these infinite gaps I supposedly am proposing. Your theory has events every moment in time going back. I am talking about the same scenario. I am not talking about a start to such a sequence either for your scenario. The fact that you have no start is the problem that creates the metaphysical impossibility. You cannot have a sequence of events ending today because there will always have to have happened a infinite amount of sequences before you get today. You will never get to today. Ever. I don't know how to say it any clearer.
What is the metaphysical problem with having no start? Specifically?
Yes, precisely, there has already been an infinite number of events at any point in time. So?
