RE: The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.
July 13, 2023 at 7:56 pm
(July 13, 2023 at 7:50 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote:(July 13, 2023 at 7:32 pm)Belacqua Wrote: The belief that things must be demonstrated through data to be considered true is a metaphysical belief. It cannot itself be demonstrated though data.
It is a very common metaphysical belief among atheists these days.
I'm not saying it's a bad belief.
Nope.
Waiting for a demonstration of a specific idea, (First Cause) actually is the absence of a metaphysic.
I have no concept of First Cause. It's not a metaphysic I share.
I'm actually not pedantic or special enough to have a (snort) metaphysic.
You do have an idea about what a First Cause would have to be like. You said it earlier.
You said that it would have to be demonstrable through data.
The belief that true things about the world must be demonstrable through data is a metaphysical belief. It cannot itself be proved by data.
This is a good introduction:
https://www.amazon.com/Metaphysics-Very-...352&sr=8-1
