RE: The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.
August 11, 2023 at 10:34 am
(August 11, 2023 at 10:23 am)GrandizerII Wrote:I gotta say i'm not a fan of definition 2 as something existing differently doesn't contradict necessity I also don't really buy being unnecessary as being equal to being contingent. Also i have to consider depending on what one means by the universe I even question definition 1.(August 6, 2023 at 2:38 pm)LinuxGal Wrote: And this some men call the Universe.
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:
If 2, then saying that the universe is not contingent is going to be a rather extreme view. This suggests you may be a necessitarian maybe?
- 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
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