RE: The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.
July 5, 2023 at 12:36 pm
(This post was last modified: July 5, 2023 at 12:55 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Correct. As you would find in the link Bel offered, infinite regress has been argued to be incompatible with specific analytical positions and particular metaphysical ideologies or principles - but a difficulty for systems that people use to organize their thoughts or assert their beliefs is not a problem for the universe. It's our problem. There are and have always been things that do exist and are a problem for us or some other belief we hold. As I said pages and pages ago, in this arguments against infinite regress are appeals to consequence. If infinite regress existed, that would be bad -for whatever x the arguer holds dear-. I actually agree with this and it is troubling, but, ofc... it doesn't follow that because a thing would be inconvenient to a cherished belief that thing must not exist.
It's a wonder to me that the faithful mine dead and dead-end arguments from antiquity when pursuing the case for their gods. We've gotten much better at arguing since saint tommys failed attempt at syncretism, and we know a hell of alot more about the world we live in. A god informed by better arguments and by greater and more accurate data sets would seem to be preferable, to me. I suppose it might not end up looking like the god they wish existed - the central trouble that the religious often have and what..to me..indicates a deplorable shallowness in their beliefs...but hey..whatever. Like infinite regress, that's our problem, not a gods problem.
It's a wonder to me that the faithful mine dead and dead-end arguments from antiquity when pursuing the case for their gods. We've gotten much better at arguing since saint tommys failed attempt at syncretism, and we know a hell of alot more about the world we live in. A god informed by better arguments and by greater and more accurate data sets would seem to be preferable, to me. I suppose it might not end up looking like the god they wish existed - the central trouble that the religious often have and what..to me..indicates a deplorable shallowness in their beliefs...but hey..whatever. Like infinite regress, that's our problem, not a gods problem.
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