(December 5, 2018 at 9:04 pm)Belaqua Wrote: And to continue my ploddingly baby-steps review: does P2 also makes sense?
Quote:P2. The potency principle: If A -> B then for all C element of B, A -> C. In other words if A is the cause of B then A is the cause of every part of B. There are several notions of causality in philosophy. Hatcher's notion of causality is total causality; i.e. it is not the straw that breaks the camel's back but the 1000 straws before it, the camel, gravity, and so forth, that give rise to the camel breaking its back.
I don't see much of a problem with it. So I'm happy to concede this for the sake of argument. Now for P3, on the other hand, I don't fully agree with.