K, so I am "studying" for my last exam right now! Hooray! Well, not really.... you see, this class I'm studying for is Intro to Philosophy and my professor, who is awesome because he's Dutch (if you ain't dutch, you ain't much), Dr. Hendrik van der Breggen is outrageously intellectual and there is no doubt that he is the smartest man I have ever met. I just finished my final essay for this class two hours ago and that only leaves me these wee hours of this morning to study for the exam! However, how am I supposed to study when I have to study this?:
Eternal counter argument:
Assume there is a beginningless series that ends in the present.
If we can prove that this isn’t the case then we can conclude the universe began to exist.
It’s possible then that an eternal counter ends his/her/its count, …-3,-2,-1,0 at the present moment,
But the eternal counter would have finished yesterday (since the beginningless series would have ended yesterday).
Thus, the eternal counter is forever in the past not counting.
Thus, the eternal counter counts forever in the past and not forever in the past.
Thus, the above assumption is false too (via reductio as absurdum).
Bottomless pit argument:
Jumping out of a bottomless pit is not possible.
Traversing an infinite past is not possible too.
Infinite past… today.
Infinite pit… standing at edge of pit.
Jumping out of bottomless pit isn’t possible.
Therefore traversing an infinite past isn’t possible... Because just as the fact that you jumped out of a pit shows it wasn’t bottomless, so too the fact we’re at the present shows the past isn’t infinite.
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Ya... it's crazy talk. UNREAL! But awesome at the same time!
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