(July 4, 2012 at 2:11 pm)Ace Otana Wrote: Alright, go do it. Demonstrate that A caused B. Prove me wrong.
Alright. Here's the hypothetical:
Let "event" denote a state of affairs that has resulted from some cause, and that the only state of affairs that are causes are those that exist. Suppose that an event B is such that it can only ever be caused by A. That is "X caused B" is only true when X = A.
Now, suppose that B occurs. Since B is an event, it was the result of a cause. Call this cause C. Thus, we know "C caused B" is true. From the above, we know C = A. Hence "A caused B" is true. Hence A exists. QED.
Thus your claim is false.
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