RE: Evidence for a god. Do you have any? Simplified arguments version.
October 12, 2018 at 11:58 am
(This post was last modified: October 12, 2018 at 12:06 pm by GrandizerII.)
(October 12, 2018 at 11:50 am)MysticKnight Wrote: It's just observation, no matter, how long the line becomes, either way (backwards or forward), all of remains points that are effects, and the whole thing is still an effect. This observation will make you see, just like if you were to draw a green line, it would remain green, the same is true of drawing a an infinite line the whole thing is still green. So it's not a fallacy of composition to the whole, but in fact, it's by induction, we know the line (infinite or finite) will remain an effect.
Sometimes composition fallacy is a fallacy, but sometimes its really an induction that applies to every possible reality of a thing.
For example, you can by induction prove things about every triangle.
The same is true of an infinite chain of effects, through this process of observation, you will see by induction, the thing remains an effect.
No, I think it's still a fallacy of composition in this case, because the points individually could each be caused and with beginnings, but the whole set would be eternal and uncaused. Just as a whole set of points has at least one dimension, even if the individual point doesn't.
So this is a logical possibility, and if you think it's wrong that this is logically possible, feel free to correct it.
EDIT: IOW, the inductive part applies to the individual points that altogether complete the infinite set, not to the whole set of points.
