Your deterioration in language is symptomatic of someone losing an argument. Instead of vague generalities; can you not come up with any specific coun...
It's logical thinking. Why don't you try to find a problem with it rather than posting rants. Nowhere in physics is the concept of now enshrined... so...
You could think of it like that, but physics makes no distinction between now and past/present and in relativity, there is no preferred reference fram...
The definition of the first transfinite number is the cardinality of the set of natural numbers. No way is that a number. It's a conception of a mad m...
It seems possible to be directed towards an end that does not exist. Firemen heading towards a non-existent fire for example. I have the goal of keepi...
Actually I thought of a snag. If God were a Boltzmann Brain generated from pure chaos, pure chaos would need fine tuning for Boltzmann Brain's, but by...
Nor can it exist IMO. Infinity is not logical. Nature is logical. Therefore infinity does not feature in nature. It is not a quantity so it cannot be ...
The fact that the start does not exist means the rest of the object does not exist (so my argument goes). So time seems to behaves like space in this ...
But how did they come into being? Or they existed for ever? See below: The point in time following the start. It would qualify as the start if the sta...
No it assumes an 'end' of time: now. Thats all. If there is only now and then you take away that there is nothing left at all. Nothing to create/cause...
The point I was making is that God should be logical and therefore build the universe in the most efficient manner possible. There is an argument that...
'It (Deism) also rejects revelation as a source of religious knowledge and asserts that reason and observation of the natural world are sufficient to ...
What I mean is that the path on the circle (/its topology) is finite. You can carry on going around the loop potentially infinite times but the path i...
I think you can divide possible models of the universe into 4 basic classes: 1. 'Can’t get something from nothing' & 'Infinite Time' - for me this fai...
Travelling around circle can be regarded as an example of potential infinity (/unbounded). But it's not really an infinite path: starting at 0?, once ...
We are talking about time so the being is: - Actually infinite in the past (IE it stretches back forever) and potentially infinite (=finite but unboun...
I agree each event has a cause, the problem is the infinite regress as a whole has no cause. So it makes logical sense when viewed as a series of indi...
The title of the OP is 'Is 2 + 2 = 4 universally true?'. So I've assumed it was false to see where it leads and 2+2<>4 always leads to a contradiction...
Quantum fluctuations on their own are meant to respect the conservation of energy, but its theorised that they can cause processes like eternal inflat...
I'd argue that maths transcends and therefore governs the universe. You can write: 2+2=5 Subtract 4 from each side give: 0=1 That implies false=true. ...
A counter argument: A. An infinite regress has no initial cause (start). B. That implies cause and effect don’t hold C. So spontaneous matter/energy c...
'Mimosa is a plant, which looks something like a fern, that collapses its leaves temporarily when it is disturbed. So Gagliano set up a contraption th...
How exactly does counting make existing forever impossible? Counting to infinity is impossible because infinity does not exist. Counting is possible s...
But existing forever and counting is impossible. Counting is possible. So existing forever is not. What you are suggesting sounds impossible. How can ...
I've assumed that time exists in some form before the Big Bang. But if that assumption is false; time has a start anyway and my argument still holds. ...
We can conceive of infinity; but we can't logically conceive of infinity (or not for very long before we hit one of the numerous contradictions of inf...
Definitions are not assumptions. My argument does not rely on dimensions. It uses the loosest possible definition of time (I don't assume eternalism o...
On the multiplicity of God, if there are many things in heaven, they can be traced back in a casual hierarchy of creation to a single creator, who we ...
But we have to have a definition of the term God before we can do any reasoning: 1. God is defined as creator of the universe 2. God exists is given 3...
Nice try but its impossible. Being able to conceive of something does not make it possible; it has to be 'logically conceive' of something and existin...
No I am using maths. Time is infinite. I define a natural event as one that has a non-zero probability of occurring. Infinity times any non-zero numbe...
I have presented 4. Please present a logical argument that things can exist without coming into being. It's a thought experiment. The point is such a ...
This would mean matter/energy has existed ‘forever’ which is impossible; the matter/energy would have no coming into being so could not exist; it is l...
The same type of question, should we assume? - 100% certain no creator - 100% certain there is a creator - 50% / 50% If we have no evidence either way...
If creation was natural, its has a non-zero probability of occurring. If time was infinite, there would therefore be infinite instances of creation an...
No, you are missing the point; any natural starting point for the Big Bang (with infinite time) implies infinite Big Bangs. So the Big Bang was not na...
Then where did the stone come from? What created it? My argument (https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/5077/time-has-a-start/p1) concludes that t...
They conclude that there is a creator and that is my basic definition of God. If you can point out any specific example of a fallacy in my argument, I...
A goal of philosophy is understanding the nature of the universe and that includes understanding if there is a God and the nature of God. If God exist...
There is quite a lot of evidence for God: 1) Non-causal cosmological argument, see: - https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/5077/time-has-a-start/...
If it's impossible to change the universe after it is brought into being then God could be omnipotent, omnipresent and omnibenevolent and the problem ...
I found this: https://www.iep.utm.edu/aquinas/#SSH6ciii "Thomas contends that God does not exist in time (see, for example, ST Ia. q. 10). To see why ...
Is an uncaused effect logically possible? It would be a random effect and we (the human race) have never worked out how to do random... maybe random i...
Yes I'm with Einstein - there is no replacement for cause and effect - how else could the universe 'get things done'. QM is probably just a partial en...
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