Devans99

The idea is you can imagine 4D by imagining 3D. So instead of trying to visualise 4D spacetime directly which is impossible, you visualise 3D, but wit...

Which of my axioms is 'invented'? Is there any philosophical question to which your answer is not 'I don't know'? I don't make blind guesses; I deduce...

The angle I am coming from is eternalism - there is a possibility that the past and maybe also future are 'real' in someway. So think Einstein's 4D sp...

ALWAYS WAS is only possible via TIMELESSNESS - once you accept that infinite regresses are impossible, thats the only way it can be logically. I am no...

I think it would be documented on the web somewhere if there was such an obvious hole in the prime mover argument... really you are clutching at straw...

No-one has pointed out Aquinas's error in 800 years. You certainly have not. Did you read the link I gave you? For example, if a particle has no tempo...

Aquinas is regarded as one of the most intelligent men ever. You are saying he is wrong. You are wrong.

I don't think we need to be completely negative - it is space itself that is expanding and the rate of expansion has changed in the past (eg the end o...

Circular time would be a causality feedback loop I think. It's not so far fetched - the only place in spacetime you can get enough matter/energy for t...

I don't think it is possible for time to be eternal - that would require everything (matter etc...) to exist 'forever' which does not seem possible: h...

No my (and Aquinas's) reasoning points out that an infinite chain of causes has no start and because of this, none of it can exist. It does not matter...

A lack of first cause means a lack of 2nd cause, a lack of 3rd cause etc...

I really don't get you, the argument is about a lack of first cause - nowhere is it assumed that there is a first cause.

Who is your favourite?

Think of a finite regress like a pool table: { 'cue hits white', 'white hits black', 'black goes in hole' } Would the black go in the hole if the cue ...

Infinity / Eternity looks like this: { ..., 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 } The ... indicate it has no start.

Where exactly do I assume a first cause?

Sure but current day knowledge is likely shot through with holes too: infinity, dark matter, set theory, etc... Whatever source you goto, you have pro...

But we know that infinity has no start. So there is no starting event. And the starting event causes the next event and so on and so forth. Without th...

What criticisms do you refer?

I explained my pool table analogy for a regress... if you won't accept that, I'm not sure there is anything that will convince you.

All explained here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/5577/was-there-a-first-cause-reviewing-the-five-ways/p1 There is no way for anything to ...

That criticism is far enough. I think he should have restricted himself to a 'timeless first cause' in his argument. But he was maybe under social pre...

Dude! "Aristotle (/?ær??st?t?l/; Greek: ??????????? Aristotél?s, pronounced ; 384–322 BC) was a philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Gre...

Aristotle had the same argument.

No you go by the axioms used - do you believe the axioms? If you believe the axioms and the logic is sound... In the case of the 5 ways, it is mainly ...

We can deduce that the first cause is timeless. And some other attributes such as intelligence and benevolence are probable. Being extra-dimensional o...

Apart from that bit which I agree is a stretch, what do you disagree with? Do you reject the logical necessity of a first cause?

I deduce my beliefs from my axioms. Causality is one of my axioms. That leads to a first cause. That agrees with Aquinas's arguments.

I agree the 4th is not valid. What are your objections to the others?

Obviously have to be selective about it. Some obvious arguments like 4 elements turned out wrong. In the case of the 5 ways, he is mainly using cause ...

As I mentioned above, the most obvious, best arguments come up first. So you have to look back in history for these arguments.

"The Summa Theologiae (written 1265–1274 and also known as the Summa Theologica or simply the Summa) is the best-known work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225...

He is regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of all time. Certainly you should not dismiss him without at least spending some time on the 5 ways...

OK I'm not getting any value out of talking to you so I quit.

It cannot have existed forever in time. Thats impossible as Thomas Aquinas showed and I have shown many times on this forum.

At least I don't assume the universe was created by magic.

It is not a theory, it is an estimate. There is a difference. Estimates are part of everyday life; we do it all the time. Why do you have a problem wi...

It is a high level estimate, meant as the basis to start a discussion, I was not presenting it as the finished goods, analysed to the nth level of det...

Its a high level estimate only, you are being pedantic. No I allowed a 50% probability of eternalism being true. A dimension can be visualised as a li...

But we are talking about the difference between 0% an 1% - not a huge impact on the calculation. And whilst I'm using math, I'm doing induction. Its i...

I guess I cannot be communicating clearly enough.

You are being pedantic. My argument first allows for the need to eternalism to be true as a prerequisite as well. So assuming time is a dimension, you...

I've explained my reasons why I disagree with Christoffer above...

Well the impact of the 1% estimates on the total estimate is small so I felt an estimate was OK. We all know the probability of those three is very lo...

Its a fact that the most obvious arguments were documented first in human history. And Occam's Razor says to prefer obvious arguments. So only an idio...

There is no calculation behind it; it is an estimate. In the absence of statistical support; estimates are the best one can do. Eternalist time can ha...

I have to assume I have not articulated my arguments clearly enough I guess.

What's funny about survival? It is our primary directive after all.

1% - is basically a rounded up estimate for 'I have virtually no belief in the possibility of' (religion, simulation or quantum immortality). I rounde...