Hi Stephen P. King Leibniz thought that everything needs a sufficient reason to exist as it does. Thus all of the parts of the universe have a sufficient reason to be (as they are). I don't know how to explain that by anything other than the the "God" hypothesis.
Roger Clough, [email protected] 11/12/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-10, 12:28:31 Subject: Re: Communicability On 11/10/2012 6:01 AM, Roger Clough wrote: > Hi Stephen P. King > > There's no mystery. That's presumably how a machine packed > them during manufacture. Hi Roger, The order of the crackers has a cause, some physical process lead to the order. When we are considering ontological models and theories and using ideas that depend on epistemological knowledge, it is easy to fall into regress. I have found that regress can be controlled and there is even a nice mathematical theory that uses regressive sets - sets that have no least member and sets that have themselves as a member, but any time that we claim a 'cut off' there has to be sufficient reasons for it. > > er Clough, [email protected] > 11/10/2012 > "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen > > > ----- Receiving the following content ----- > From: Stephen P. King > Receiver: everything-list > Time: 2012-11-09, 13:32:23 > Subject: Re: Communicability > > > On 11/9/2012 11:24 AM, Roger Clough wrote: >> Hi Stephen P. King >> >> Get a box of crackers with the crackers all lined perfectly up inside. > No explanation at all is given as to how the cracker got to be > "perfectly lined up". ... Right. > >> That's Platonia. >> >> Now invert the box and let the crackers fall, scattering on the >> floor and some even breaking. That's our contingent world. >> >> Nobody knows why, but that's the way time works. > > -- > Onward! > > Stephen > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > -- Onward! Stephen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
