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The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.

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The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.
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RE: The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.
July 26, 2023 at 3:30 pm (This post was last modified: July 26, 2023 at 3:33 pm by Bucky Ball.)
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July 26, 2023 at 5:11 pm
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RE: The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.
August 6, 2023 at 2:38 pm
(July 2, 2023 at 9:07 pm)Nishant Xavier Wrote: 3. Therefore, not every Being in existence is a contingent being.

4. Specifically, the First Being in Existence exists Non-Contingently. 
And this some men call the Universe.
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RE: The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.
August 10, 2023 at 9:20 pm
(July 14, 2023 at 7:28 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:
(July 14, 2023 at 6:47 pm)Belacqua Wrote:
(July 14, 2023 at 5:24 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Is there anything that must exist in order for quantum foam to exist? 

A good question but I might phrase it differently. What must be true in order for quantum foam to exist and have the properties it seems to have?
That the product of uncertainty in position and momentum (or in time and energy, or in orientation and angular momentum) must be greater than or equal to h bar over 2.
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August 11, 2023 at 10:23 am
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August 11, 2023 at 10:34 am
"Change was inevitable"


Nemo sicut deus debet esse!

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RE: The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.
August 11, 2023 at 11:48 am (This post was last modified: August 11, 2023 at 12:15 pm by Bucky Ball.)
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RE: The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.
August 11, 2023 at 12:10 pm
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August 12, 2023 at 9:44 am
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August 12, 2023 at 10:16 am
It all seems absurd to me whichever way you slice it. A brute fact God or a brute fact universe are both 'crazy' to me.
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