It is true because you dont understand it

[Rhizomorph13]

Pure actuality entails creation. "1st 'act'". To create is not to stand still.

Fr0d0,

Wrongo! The argument from pure actuality that Jon laid out was NOT a first cause argument. YAY I learned how to search the forum and show the results as posts instead of threads.

From post #20 in Jon's thread:

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Now, since a pure actuality transcends everything of potentiality - that is, causality - it also transcends everything that comes with causality, including time and space (which, as I mentioned earlier, are connected with causality). The first consequence of this is that the pure actuality is unchangeable/immutable, since it transcends change itself (causality) and of course immortal because mortality is a part of causal and changing reality. It is also eternal, since if it transcends change and causality, it transcends time. It is also immaterial, since it transcends matter. It is also one, since the the principle of individuation, i.e., of numerical distinction of one individual from another with the same specific nature, is matter designated by quantity (and it transcends matter).

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From post #406 in the same thread:

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Actually, it's not a first cause argument, but a transcendental source of actuality argument, which means that it doesn't depend on the idea of an unbroken causal chain in which all internal causes are traced to "one" first cause, as I've established several places.

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Rhizo