RCSaunders wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 9:10 pm
That's wrong.
Everything that exists at any moment is the orgin of everything that exists the next moment.
I am doubting that most people here even know Propositional (or Sentential) Calculus that would help. If you DO know this, then there is a paradox regarding implication: the Material Implication asserts that given
Q,
P → Q. That is, given anything, you can conclude that it is the case that some condition exists such that
P can be anything, whether true or false.
This problem relates to the fact that we often interpret implication as "
if P then Q" as it might suggest causation of
Q by
P.
"
if (It rains), then (I will get wet)" suggests that rain in this conditional justifies me getting wet.
But notice, "
if (I am alive), then (I had to have been born)" suggests a significant 'cause' of me being alive requires being born PRIOR to that fact.
So my argument has the form, "
if (Absolutely Something/Anything exists), then (Absolutely Nothing exists)."
Absolutely Nothing precedes causation and defines it by its very nature to imply BOTH
Absolutely Nothing and Absolutely Something/Anything, which is a
contradiction allowed by its meaning. Where
Absolutely Nothing exists, it CAN be both but if
ONLY Absolutely Something exists,
Absolutely Nothing cannot exist.
So the first part I argued is that
If (an origin exists), then (ONLY Absolutely Nothing is the origin). When you understand that time itself is also non-existing AT this possible fact, then
Absolutely Nothing is timeless and covers each instantaneous point in time or space. This means that any point IN time or space is the same as this absolute. It is the '
background' to which anything in Totality is described. As such, since there ARE origins everywhere, the 'absolute' is identical to the 'relative' referents of "
nothingness" anywhere we might find it.
Given that for one specific instantaneous point is 'nothing' and that a minimum of two distinct such points manifest 'something',
nothing is essential to describe
any one thiing. Can you have the converse? That is, can you begin with
Absolutely Something OTHER THAN NOTHING that can be describable without reference to what it is not?