(September 14, 2014 at 7:06 pm)Rhythm Wrote:(September 14, 2014 at 5:26 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Given: being changes.Something I'm wondering about that one, "non-being" as a state or as a concept does not exist? I think the wording is too loose to trust the conclusion. Obviously non-being exists in some form....or the argument is incoherent. What doesn't exist, again? Maybe something is lost in the mechanics of translation to english?
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.
As he said, it seems to be sound "only if applied to the totality of existence."
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza