RE: The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.
July 3, 2023 at 9:56 am
(This post was last modified: July 3, 2023 at 9:58 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Our very specific type of semantic organization seeks to avoid infinite regress not because any argument or evidence actually does or can demonstrate some first mover or that infinite regress is impoosible, but because in a case of infinite regress a question becomes -literally- unanswerable within that system which purports to reach terminus in such questions. In this, all arguments to first causes are thinly veiled arguments to consequence.
There cannot be an infinite regress...because that would be bad. For classical western logic, ofc. The universe remains completely unmoved by our discomfort and ignorance.
There cannot be an infinite regress...because that would be bad. For classical western logic, ofc. The universe remains completely unmoved by our discomfort and ignorance.
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