(September 14, 2021 at 11:46 am)Klorophyll Wrote:(September 13, 2021 at 6:01 pm)Angrboda Wrote: False. We can't even say that our own universe required a beginning or else is past eternal, much less a universe we know nothing about.
For any existing universe, the two propositions, P :"A universe began to exist" and Q :"A universe has an eternal past" are mutually exclusive, one of them must be true, Q is simply non-P. This is the basic law of excluded middle.
Unless you're willing to deny the most basic rules of logic and delve into sophistry, you are forced to pick one of these propositions.
The no boundary proposal?