RE: Is the Argument from Degrees contradictory to the 3rd Law of Thermodynamics?
June 22, 2023 at 4:30 am
(This post was last modified: June 22, 2023 at 4:31 am by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(June 21, 2023 at 10:49 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote:(June 21, 2023 at 6:28 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: No, he was talking about perfection. This is why it’s known as ‘the degrees of perfection argument’.
Boru
So, he wasn't saying "If there are two things which have some property to a larger and a smaller extent, there has to be a thing which has that same property to a maximal possible degree."? I am quite sure he was saying that, he even used hotness and fire as an example.
Yes, that's what he was saying. If A is less hot than B and B is less hot than C and C is less hot than D, etc, eventually you'd get to a state of maximal, perfect hotness (probably Z to the nth). But he also talked about the same thing with the quality of goodness, to show that eventually, you'd reach a Thing with maximal, perfect goodness, and call this Thing 'God'.
The whole mishegas was an attempt to show that all classes of things exist in greater or lesser degrees of perfection, hence the name of the argument.
Boru
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