RE: The Cosmological Argument and Free Will
September 15, 2014 at 11:00 am
(This post was last modified: September 15, 2014 at 11:21 am by The Grand Nudger.)
How could non-existence be a standalone concept in the first place? It's the negation of another concept, necessarily referential. Non existence or things that are non-existent do not change, I can follow with that, but what does that have to do with the argument or the conclusion? Under that understanding we're just accepting that existence and non-existence are different, one changes and the other does not. That what exists is different from what does not - but did we need an argument for that (and clearly that argument isn't looking to establish that at all - it's harpoon is pointed at a different whale)?
Or, to put it another way, if we modify the argument along the lines you've suggested we aren't even discussing the same argument anymore. In trying to resolve the mechanical issues with word usage we've left the field and decided to skirmish on another.
Given: being changes.
The only thing into which being can change is non-being.
Non-being does not change
Therefore:
Therefore what?
(see any new issues we may have just created for this series of statements? Still haven't sunk my teeth into the line directly above the newly modified bolded bit, but I'm guessing that's next judging by what we might be able to plug into the "therefore", lol)
Or, to put it another way, if we modify the argument along the lines you've suggested we aren't even discussing the same argument anymore. In trying to resolve the mechanical issues with word usage we've left the field and decided to skirmish on another.
Given: being changes.
The only thing into which being can change is non-being.
Non-being does not change
Therefore:
Therefore what?
(see any new issues we may have just created for this series of statements? Still haven't sunk my teeth into the line directly above the newly modified bolded bit, but I'm guessing that's next judging by what we might be able to plug into the "therefore", lol)
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