Devans99

You can't have an explanation for a phenomena which fails to account for its cause.

I am in this case using the standard definition of infinity: 'something larger than anything else possible'. If it grows it implies it was not larger ...

But there can be no reason for why is there something rather than nothing. And an explanation without a reason is no explanation in my book. So no oth...

OK the definition of explanation is: 1. a statement or account that makes something clear. 2. a reason or justification given for an action or belief....

Can you describe your interpretation of the question?

But I believe the argument shows that there can be no other answer possible. The 'why' in 'why is there something rather than nothing?' implies a stat...

I do not follow your analysis. The reason something existed must preexist the something. If preexistence is not possible, there can be no reason. So w...

I feel I did - if there is nothing 'prior' to something then something has no cause/reason.

I think in this usage 'cause' and 'reason' are identical: - is there a reason something existed - is there a cause of something Is asking the same que...

I think the reason for something must lie temporally prior to the something. The thing that existed permanently must be timeless so beyond causation -...

I guess it could work the way you say but it's more conventional to associate 'time is just motion' with presentism. 'Time is just motion' is equivale...

Presentism seem to preclude such higher dimensions - by saying 'only now exists' - it says to me that all things that exist, exist in the present. I t...

I'm have the opinion that only logical thinks can exist. What does it mean to be illogical? The definition of logic is: 'reasoning conducted or assess...

From the same source: 'I have never assumed a ‘Genus Supremum’ of the actual infinite. Quite on the contrary I have rigorously proved that there can b...

'Despite his willingness to question the Church, it was very important to Cantor to show that his theory of actually infinite sets could be rectified ...

Cantor was a bible bashing madman: 'Cantor linked the Absolute Infinite with God, and believed that it had various mathematical properties, including ...

I think this is covered here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/272129 So my argument is things like quantum fluctuations creating the...

If something comes from nothing naturally and time is infinite then matter density ends up infinite. So can't get something from nothing applies or ti...

I'm have the opinion that you can't get something from nothing so something must have always existed. That something is the timeless first cause. It h...

What I mean is: - creation without time and anything else is impossible - creation without time but with something else is possible The first event de...

But with presentism, when you take away 'only now' (IE the start of time), there is absolutely nothing else left in existence period. So its creation ...

I believe so. True and false is the most crude representation of information we have. If the universe could not support true and false (IE logic), the...

Stuff happens in spacetime without time: photons get around without experiencing time. So change without time seems possible; hence timeless creation ...

With presentism, if you take away 'only now' (IE the start of time), there is nothing left at all so creation of time seems impossible. With eternalis...

With eternalism something other than 'only now' is allowed to exist so there is something 'there' to create time. A timeless first cause (which does n...

The fact that the present only exists has ALWAYS been the case. So as we go back in time, still only the present exists. So the present ALWAYS existed...

You seem to be denying 2000 years worth of scientific progress. I am middle aged if you must know. Look at it this way; why would you bother with phil...

Hidden non-local variable theories are still in the running though?

Having time start without a cause is a sort of creation ex nihilo but seems worse because time itself is absence too - could time start/be created whi...

I don't think there can be a temporal beginning for God as that requires time - he must exist permanently beyond time and be without cause. The act of...

The wave function could change but that is only our estimation of where the photon is; it is not the actual particle. Maybe the photon remains unchang...

You can't fit a pint in a half pint pot. That information (on all the particles in the universe) has to fit somewhere. This is logical. Besides, to be...

How exactly is that a blind guess? How would a brain exist of such dimensions? It would take years for distant parts of the brain to communicate with ...

I've already mentioned this; when talking in the singular; as in someone's name, you use the capitalised form, for example: God may exist. When using ...

Space is the only other dimension so drawing analogies to time is tempting. So I'm thinking from the spacetime viewpoint. So thinking of an object as ...

My motivation is to work out the truth of how the universe came about. That may or may not include God. I have argued for God's existence in the past ...

I am trying to use logic rather than pontificating. I do no agree that inconsistencies in my reasoning having been demonstrated. 'Always' existing in ...

But for it to be one object, the temporal start must be connected to the temporal end (else it is two separate objects). I think you have to think abo...

Interesting. It is the case that presentism agrees with our gut feeling about the way the world works I grant. At the same time it seems to be logical...

You cannot use Santa's non existence to prove you don't exist. It is a fact that the start is always connected to the end so it is always valid to tra...

I would question whether even God can exist without logic (and maths is an extension of logic). What is logic? It is information (statements with thei...

I think it is probable that the universe was constructed using mathematics but I don't see how God could have constructed mathematics itself. For exam...

Well we can say that an infinite regress is impossible - it has no start - so how could any of it come about? So the only way to avoid an infinite reg...

Correct. The timeless prime mover has no cause. That is what started everything else off.

The concept 'Peanut' does not predate the universe. 1+1=2 in all universes. ? is the same in all universes. So if maths is constructed; it is construc...

Everything that exists in time needs a temporal start point. Things that exist outside of time don't.

Your argument shows that Santa does not exist. That does not show my argument is invalid. Just because time still exists, does not mean that the objec...

But how many events has the being experienced? If it always true that it is 'greater than any number we select', then we can conclude that 'the number...

The OP contains an argument that a particle needs a temporal start to exist. For particle you could read universe. https://thephilosophyforum.com/disc...

I could say if the universe does not have an age; it is not a universe. Having no age implies the universe has no temporal start implies none of it ex...