RE: The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.
August 11, 2023 at 10:23 am
(August 6, 2023 at 2:38 pm)LinuxGal Wrote:(July 2, 2023 at 9:07 pm)Nishant Xavier Wrote: 3. Therefore, not every Being in existence is a contingent being.And this some men call the Universe.
4. Specifically, the First Being in Existence exists Non-Contingently.
Nishant's arguments were worded very badly, and he was mixing up two or three different arguments together in a chaotic sense.
That said, are you thinking of contingent as:
- dependent for its existence on something else, or
- not necessary (i.e., it could've not existed instead or it could've existed in a different way instead)?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessitarianism