RE: The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.
July 15, 2023 at 9:47 am
(This post was last modified: July 15, 2023 at 9:52 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 15, 2023 at 8:43 am)Loaded dice Wrote:(July 15, 2023 at 8:28 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: a puddle of water turning into the mona lisa.
Logically possible, people depict this stuff all the time in cartoons.
(July 15, 2023 at 8:28 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: heat moving through a vacuum.
Impossible under the constraint of physical laws, but not logically impossible. An all powerful agent can breaks these laws easily.
(July 15, 2023 at 8:29 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: ...gods
There is no plain logical contradiction in the traditional concept of God. Many ambitious attempts to bring out such contradictions in the history of philosophy, but nothing clinching so far.
Is that what you actually mean when you use the words "logical possibility" - the things depicted in cartoons....?
IDK what cartoons are like where/when you grew up - but here, they're mostly absurdist. At any rate, I think you need to spend some time boning up on the difference between conceivability and logical possibility. Amusingly enough, there are orders of magnitude more conceivable things than logically possible things, and this is the consequence of the system of logic pure and simple. It's eliminative by design.
Do you think it's logically possible that god does not exist? I can conceive of it, so it must be, right? Think this one through.
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