RE: God As Grounding Cause
May 24, 2018 at 2:19 pm
(This post was last modified: May 24, 2018 at 2:25 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Unintelligible is not a synonym for impossible. Nor is your lack of imagination a synonym for absurdity.
That;s ignoring the very real possibility of you being fundamentally wrong about both items above.
I understand, though. Infinite regress robs us of an ability to reach some terminus, some conclusion. That;s why we don;t refer to it when trying to ascertain cause. That doesn;t mean that infinite regress is impossible..only massively inconvenient to ascertaining cause by our preferred means. Uncaused causes, first causes, grounding causes..in the singular or plural, are rhetorical objects meant to paper over the limits of a system we've defined.
Not observations on the nature of reality or the universe.
That;s ignoring the very real possibility of you being fundamentally wrong about both items above.
I understand, though. Infinite regress robs us of an ability to reach some terminus, some conclusion. That;s why we don;t refer to it when trying to ascertain cause. That doesn;t mean that infinite regress is impossible..only massively inconvenient to ascertaining cause by our preferred means. Uncaused causes, first causes, grounding causes..in the singular or plural, are rhetorical objects meant to paper over the limits of a system we've defined.
Not observations on the nature of reality or the universe.
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