(September 9, 2014 at 8:15 pm)whateverist Wrote: Excuse me but has anyone shown that it is even possible that anything can always have existed which could then serve as a first cause?I thing the argument of Parmenides with respect to being and non-being works, but only if applied to the totality of existence. The argument is as follows.
Given: being changes.
The only thing into which being can change is non-being.
Non-being does not exist.
Therefore: being does not change.
What I see in this is a compelling deduction of a single and immutable ground of being.
