RE: The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.
July 22, 2023 at 3:30 pm
(July 22, 2023 at 2:39 pm)Nishant Xavier Wrote: Successively adding what an infinite number of times? That sounds like begging the question. You need to prove this premise: "By successive addition, I can get to an Actual Infinite". Your response is: "If I successively add an infinite number of times, I can".
It does not prove the point. When you successively add numbers 1,2,3 on the paper, why don't you get to an Actual Infinite? According to you, "If I successively add an infinite number of times, I can". So do that, and then I'll concede the argument.
If by "do that" you mean perform the task then I think you are confused, as if I am adding an infinite number of times or for an infinite amount of time then the task never finishes and so it isn't in any sense performed [to completion]. That's because infinite series, my additions in this case, never end, and so I never stop.
Here is the point from two eminent philosophers who I suspect know a sight more than you do about the subject:
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Adrian Moore, Professor of Philosophy at Oxford and author of The Infinite
Alex Malpass, Philosophy, Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Bristol