causal finitism

Jul 04

From chickens and eggs to a cosmological argument

Alexander R Pruss

Suppose we have an infinite regress of chickens and eggs, with no first item, and suppose that if there is any last item, it’s not a chicken. Plausibly, then: The plurality of the chickens explains the eggs. But also plausibly: If x has an explanation, then x has a fundamental explanation....

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May 13

A long walk

Alexander R Pruss

Alice has lived forever in a universe with an infinite road that has a beginning and no end, and is marked every mile. Every day of her life, by an irresistable longing, she has followed these rules: If somehow she’s not on the road, she goes to mile zero on the road. If she is on the road, she...

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