RE: The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.
July 25, 2023 at 9:42 am
(July 23, 2023 at 12:04 pm)Nishant Xavier Wrote: Non Sequitur. If we have to argue for the Big Bang, or say for the Beginning of the Universe, then it never happened? Doesn't follow.
Angrboda, your video presenter first of all begs the question when says, "what if you have an infinite amount of time". That an infinite amount of seconds is possible what needs to be demonstrated. Therefore, her reasoning is circular and assumes what she needs to prove. It's like this:
Proof that an infinite number formed by successive addition is (allegedly) possible:
1. Assume that you have an infinite number of seconds formed by successive addition.
2. Therefore you allegedly can get to an infinite number with an infinite number of seconds.
Wrong. That is NOT the assumption.
In 1, you are assuming successive addition on top of a finite start. But, in an infinite regress there is no start. At any time when there is 'successive addition', there is *already* an infinite number of past seconds.
In other words, the 'successive addition' is on top of an already infinite number of seconds, which *does* give an infinite number of seconds total.
