RE: The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.
July 12, 2023 at 10:09 am
(This post was last modified: July 12, 2023 at 10:11 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 11, 2023 at 5:50 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: As a Panentheist, I would say that the Totality may indeed satisfy as Necessary Being, however, that is not necssarrily the same as the physical universe. I say that because, the physical universe is a particular thing with particular features which IMHO triggers the princple of sufficient reason.
The lead in probably explains why you think that...as a panentheist. However, whatever your plus is, in the universe+...I would still just call the universe. That's what the word means. Everything.
Whatever reason, if it even makes sense to say that the universe has a reason, would still be part of the universe. If things were different, all particulars altered, still the universe.
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