The nearest thing I know of for a justification for the claim "whatever begins to exist has a cause" is that if you, like, imagine something not being there, and then, y'know, being there, well, ah, it seems like something must have made it happen, know what I mean?
And perhaps "comes into being" conjures up a picture that encourages that sort of crystal-clear thinking, whereas e.g. "exists at a set of spacetime points that doesn't include an infinite sequence whose pairwise intervals are negative and bounded away from 0" doesn't.
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Re: Err, well, this post I suppose. What else?
Date: 2009-11-04 06:58 pm (UTC)And perhaps "comes into being" conjures up a picture that encourages that sort of crystal-clear thinking, whereas e.g. "exists at a set of spacetime points that doesn't include an infinite sequence whose pairwise intervals are negative and bounded away from 0" doesn't.