(July 13, 2019 at 10:20 pm)wyzas Wrote:(July 13, 2019 at 9:21 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: Yes. That is a perfectly valid way of approaching the PSR. Things that exist, exist because they must exist. It is necessary for them to exist.
Excellent point, Lil Rik.
But I am not making some "proclamation through fiat" when I say: "Things that exist, exist because they must exist." Ask yourself: why are things the way they are? Why does the planet earth take 24 hours to complete a rotation? Why is the sun the temperature that it is? Why is the planet Venus so hot? Why does the moon reflect light from the sun?
The answer?
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Is there an answer?
Yes.
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Prior causes. The conditions of reality before this present moment dictate what must be the case now. The reality that exists before our very eyes is necessary.
When a star produces an accretion disk, the accretion disk forms because it is necessary for the molecules being scattered from the newly-formed star to go somewhere. Likewise, the newly-formed star's formation was necessitated by what its composite hydrogen molecules must do when they enter such a state.
Give me an example of something that exists because of something other than prior causes, Brew.
