Age wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 3:40 am
This does NOT, and I will repeat, DOES NOT 'show' ANY such thing. And, this is just PURE ILLUSION to think or believe that 'that' is SHOWN by 'thought alone' .... 'pure reasoning'. You are just SEEING 'that' what is NOT THERE.
IF you REALLY want to 'show' EXACTLY HOW, supposedly, 'Something CAN come from Absolutely Nothing', then just SHOW, logically and/or empirically, just how Absolutely ANY thing CAN come from Absolutely Nothing.
What you have ACTUALLY DONE is just TWIST and DISTORT words in a way, which makes you think or believe "shows" what it is that you ALREADY BELIEVE is true.
Logic is itself inferred from experience or it would have no use. Thus it is 'empirically' determined THAT logic exists as a reality, not some artificial construct to us. From the perspective of Totality, logical generalizations are a subset of patterned worlds. That is, they begin with the nature of patterns as existing where they do, and any 'logic' is then itself an induced 'pattern' about patterns itself.
The 'mechanisms' of nature (physics) are identical to some universal patterns that define some general
logic about space, time, matter, and energy. So the Nature of our particular universe itself has to have some coinciding set of patterns that can are uniform and what defines the 'laws of physics'. But whether people CAN determine the "reasoning of Nature", we can be sure that there IS a 'reason'.
I DID show how you can find meaning to Totality if you begin from literally nothing. I don't believe in Gods and so as an athiest, I reason that any reality has to be founded on 'absolutely nothing' or 'absolutely everything AND nothing'. Both extremes point to 'nothing' as existing regardless. The only other
set of possibilities are "special" finite
atomic elements and laws that together describe only PARTICULAR worlds. This CAN be the case in our world but if so, it begs why one particular SELECT SET (ie, "special set") would be the ONLY reality regarding Totality. There has to be more than this Universe or we require asking why we are so 'special'.
Now religions are just inferences by people's emotive interpretation of something assumed 'special' to our reality based precisely on the belief that Absolutely Anything could not occur due to Absolutely Nothing. Thus, they give a finite SPECIAL name to Totality based on what they figured is 'ideally' FAIR, that has a 'special' reason for our particular existence rather some other. This 'fairness' to them is where the popular foundation of today's major religions assign a 'special VALUE' of "goodness" to Totality. And "God" is this meaning AT LEAST in common to those interpreting our Universe as Absolutely Unique.
I expanded on the point of 'special' here in the way some might assume the 'logic' of some particular game with rules represent a unique set of rules and unique LIMITED outcomes. These are the basic reasons that I first recognized that I have to broaden the class of all things to Totality as the label that encompasses ALL 'special' subset possibilities or many worlds, to which would permit CLOSURE when collectively defining Totality WITHOUT "SPECIAL" status assumed. Note how you do not like 'assuming'? To NOT assume anything is identical to presuming nothing 'special' as some
prior root of any existence. This also works if you assume absolutely nothing FALSE to Absolutely Anything. So what has to be CERTAIN is that
at least Absolutely Nothing exists.
Ignore the term, 'origin', as this only keeps reminding you or others that TIME itself has meaning for Absolutely Nothing. If time is
apriori assumed, then it assures that this concept, whatever it could mean, would
contain Absolutely Nothing and why you cannot interpret this as being able to exist in absence of Absolutely Something.
The point here is that Totality HAS to have some genetic foundation, of which 'origin' or 'genesis' are not applicable in meaning except as a type of
ultimate dependency in absolutely nothing, not ANYTHING nor EVERYTHING.
Totality, from our perspective inside it, then is defaulted as an Absolute Something to us only because we are 'products' of
something and cannot deny our own place in it. However, we cannot impose upon what Totality might be by demanding OURS has to be specially infinite nor finite because 'finite' concepts also beg boundaries exist. [Note that in an infinite sea of things, there is ALWAYS something 'finite' within it, thus begging that something
finite is foundational. This would beg that there is no such thing as "nothing" with MORE bias to ASSUMING 'space' along with 'time' as
apriori.
So ....
Age wrote:
LOOK, it is REALLY SIMPLE to SEE what is ACTUALLY going on here.
Your (0) 'Nothing exists absolutely', is ABSOLUTELY True. But this is just because the Universe, the way that It ACTUALLY ALWAYS IS, could NOT exist in any OTHER way. 'Nothing' DOES exist absolutely (or absolutely exists) BUT ONLY in 'places' BETWEEN physical things. This is just IRREFUTABLY True, Right, AND Correct.
Your (1) 'But if 'Nothing exists absolutely' is 'true', then that is ONE thing. This is a fact', is ALSO ABSOLUTELY True. But this is just because 'nothing' (or no thing) is, literally, just SOME (or ONE) thing. Obviously, 'nothing' FITS under the label of something. The word 'some' is literally defined as ONE 'thing' or ANY number of 'things' up to but NOT including ALL 'things' in ANY group of 'things'. So, 'nothing', itself, FITS in PERFECTLY under the label of Everything AND with the group known as Something. Nothing, itself, is something.
Your (2) "Since (1) is a fact, then it too has to be added and we have (3) facts," and your (3)Since (2) is a fact, .... although is PARTLY true the part about "has to be added" is just NOT true AT ALL.
You ONLY 'add' them together because you think or believe that doing so would help back up and support your already held beliefs. But, sadly AND unfortunately for you, doing that does NOT back up NOR support your currently held BELIEFS.
And Absolutely Nothing you have said, so far, could conclude that Absolutely Nothing exists as an 'origin'. To think or believe so is just a COMPLETE ILLUSION.
WHY 'you' want to BELIEVE, and INSIST, that IF there was an 'origin', then it would be Absolutely Nothing, is of your OWN making. But just because you BELIEVE this, this DOES NOT make 'it' Absolutely True.
What you have 'tried to' argue here is just a FALLACY. Your "reasoning" is faulty AND you have made 'wrong moves' in the attempt of making a sound and valid argument. As I have SHOWN and PROVEN your "argument" is invalid AND unsound.
...you appear to treat 'nothing' as NOT ABLE to be 'absolute' in principle. But if this is true in principle, then there is at least ONE thing, namely 'nothing', that CANNOT be real and thus NEGATE that it is also impossible that Absolutely Everything is true. That is, you are left to 'assume' that something SPECIAL is true of Totality. You'd also have to recognize that this 'special' concept would not be able to be Absolutely ONE because it would be no different than trying to describe all things using only one thing without 'nothing' nor any OTHER finite concept. This means you DENY any of these Absolutes (of Nothing, Something, and Everything) as having meaning and thus, Totality, itself could not be permitted to be 'defined' at all. This places Totality into the class of 'special' beings that is of SOME thing
greater than one and less than infinity (or the 'continuity' of infinity inifinites). That is, you assume a FINITE ETERNAL BEING to reality as a whole. This would require a SPECIAL status, like a 'god' or 'gods', or a 'force' that always existed [StarWars-like] or some SPECIAL SET of things that is itself IRREDUCIBLLY COMPLEX!
This is why I was motivated to argue here. The process I used is indifferent to how Set theories define mathematical and logical thought based on only the 'empty set'. It defines 'order' as just the way various kinds of complex sets can be
derived (ie, 'originating' or 'being caused by') the empty set in abstraction.
The process I used above presumes that even the abstractions themselves are
real because they just represent the collection of ALL PARTICULAR possibilities that have a common form. This is the nature of listing things as 'facts' under the PRETENSE of Absolutely Nothing as postulated in the first fact I labeled, "(0) Absolutely Nothing exists".
The words REFER to the reality and the pattern I used by recognizing each 'law' as having a count of 'one fact', is recognizing the abstraction, form, or absolutes as real. Thus my logic (the process, not the particular argument) is sound of reasoning itself, AND valid. What you disagree with is to the PARTICULAR argument's use of (0) as a fact. THIS then just means that YOU, and not I,
believe that
Absolutely Nothing is itself NOT POSSIBLE with ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY! So I can reverse the question back to you to ask HOW you inferred this without some SPECIAL BIAS?
Age wrote:
Scott Mayers wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 5:46 pm
PROOF complete for my intent so far.
NOT at all. The only thing PROVEN here is that you will 'try' absolutely ANY thing to 'try to' back up and support your ALREADY HELD BELIEFS.
And, I will remind you that what you are 'intending' and 'trying' to do and achieve here will NEVER WORK.
Thus, your last sentence here asserts just the nature of your bias. You also CLOSE the door to allow anything that I could possibly say as PERMANENTLY UNABLE to prove to you anything different regardless of how much I could argue with you, correct?
Scott Mayers wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 5:46 pmAnd it works also for the religious if they wouldn't taboo questioning God as subject to be a subset of Totality as I defined it. [But I'm guessing it won't be welcome in general politically because it is "nihilistic" logically and scares people for what it implies as though it steals away all civilized functioning.]
Besides being scientifically, or 'empirically', IMPOSSIBLE for ANY thing to come from NO thing it is ALSO, 'logically' IMPOSSIBLE.
You may as well be religious, then. Science is not the arbitor of
absolute truth because it is only dependent upon the observers' perspective and is 'special' to the biases of human activity. Induction without perfect consistent agreement of 100% is NEVER able to be MORE valid nor sound to the
mechanisms of physics themselves, let alone to all possible worlds. So you are being double biased if you assume that science can ever POSSIBLY PROVE that anything PARTICULAR is
IMPOSSIBLE with respect to the whole. It is 'tentative' and even in its methods assert that they can only speak on things that CAN in principle be 'falsifiable'. You are implying that you can DEDUCE that Absolutely Nothing is impossible with absolute closure (certainty) when science only INDUCES from patterns and measures things which CAN be 'falsifiable'.
You are left to argue something
logical here that is NOT dependent upon science. You need an argument to demonstrate how it is impossible for Totality itself to be meaningful as defined or that it is somehow 'special' without resorting to anything religious or based upon some other bias.
Are you at least flexible to change your mind or are you sticking to your assertion that I am not POSSIBLY ABLE to prove anything? If so, we have to stop arguing. I heard you, and I'll have to accept your difference knowing that you'd NEVER possibly agree regardless of my efforts.