RE: The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.
July 12, 2023 at 10:29 am
(July 12, 2023 at 10:09 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote:Indeed a different universe is still the universe and proposing a being as it or behind it is simply redundant.(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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“No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the good ones be reserved for the rich, while the poor women go to quacks?”
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