RE: [split] Critical Thinking Skills
April 3, 2013 at 11:21 am
(This post was last modified: April 3, 2013 at 11:22 am by Mystic.)
(April 3, 2013 at 11:15 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: I think we may be at an impasse, MK, I think set theory proves the opposite: the set of all chairs is not a chair. The set of all causes is not a cause. The set of all effects is not an effect. And the set of an infinite chain of causes and effects is neither a cause nor an effect, just a set.
Yeah. I'm not certain. It just seems to me a chain of effects is both by definition required of a cause (by being an effect itself) and not require it (by being infinite). So it seems like a contradiction.
Anyways, "authorities" of science say it has practically proven an infinite regress to the universe is impossible, or stars and planets and all that stuff would never form, it would have by this infinite long time, just became pretty much a void darkness (this includes the constant expanding and contracting universe hypothesis).
So if the "authorities" are right - we should be less focusing on infinite effects and try to figure out the time zero thing.