(December 5, 2018 at 9:04 pm)Belaqua Wrote:(December 5, 2018 at 8:11 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Which PSR are we accepting and for what reason?
The PSR being discussed in this thread is stated this way:
Quote:P1. The principle of sufficient reason: All phenomena are either self-caused (i.e. A->A) or other-caused (B->A; B is not equal to A) but not both. Put another way, this principle says that the question "why?" is always meaningful. Everything happens for a reason.
Whether you accept it or not, and for what reasons, is what I'm asking.
Well, I don't think that resolves it to a single PSR, but let's see what we can do with it. First, I think that it's rather elementary that a thing cannot cause itself, otherwise that thing would exist before it exists, and that would be absurd. So that leaves only other caused things, which yields an infinite series of ordered causes and no first cause. Do you agree?