Aw: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Metaphysics and Nothing (was Peirce's Cosmology)

2016-11-04 Thread Helmut Raulien
Jon, list, Yes, that is what I suspect too: It is not about chronologic: Creation, God, necessity, causality. Due to our limited human experience we cannot see these things other than in time flow, chronologically, so likely with a beginning. But maybe causation and time flow are not so strictly

Aw: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Metaphysics and Nothing (was Peirce's Cosmology)

2016-10-27 Thread Helmut Raulien
Jon, Edwina, list, I guess that the question whether there is God or not leads to the assumtion that there is God: Given that there is no God, everything has evolved by itself, but this self-creation requires a mechanism, which is intelligent, i.e. may be called "person", and the term "self" too

Aw: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Metaphysics and Nothing (was Peirce's Cosmology)

2016-10-26 Thread Helmut Raulien
Jon, list, So my hypothesis should not become a dogma. Could it at least serve for counter-hypothesis, preventing the hypothesis of a nothing from becoming a dogma? Though we are not in a courtroom, where the best method, if you are sued, is to sue back somehow. Oops, I might have gone on a path