(August 15, 2018 at 12:07 pm)pocaracas Wrote:(August 15, 2018 at 11:53 am)SteveII Wrote: I'm not sure where you think there is an objection that you can defend.
1. An event is a change in a real object
2. From any point in the past, there is a finite amount of events to the present and can be counted down en...e3...e2...e1...e0(now).
3. If there are an infinite amount of events in the past, we could never count down from infinity to e3...e2...e1...e0 because there would always be an infinite amount of events that would still have happened on the leading edge of the series.
4. With an infinite series of past events we could never arrive to the present.
5. Therefore an actual infinite series of past events is impossible.
There are countable infinities... that alone destroys your point 2.
Not with real objects (1). Premise 2 still intact.