dilly-dally spend-time

  

"immaterial unmoved movers are eternal unchangeable beings that constantly think about thinking, 

but being immaterial,  

they are incapable of interacting with the cosmos and have no knowledge of what transpires therein.  "

"An infinite regress argument attempts to establish the falsity of a proposition by showing that it entails an infinite regress that is vicious. 

The cosmological argument is a type of positive infinite regress argument given that it defends a proposition (in this case, the existence of a first cause) by arguing that its negation would lead to a vicious regress.  

An infinite regress may be vicious due to various reasons:

Impossibility:  

Thought experiments such as Hilbert's Hotel are cited to demonstrate the metaphysical impossibility of actual infinities existing in reality.  

Accordingly, it may be argued that an infinite causal or temporal regress cannot occur in the real world.

Implausibility:    The regress contradicts empirical evidence 

(e.g. for the finitude of the past)

 or basic principles such as  

Occam's razor.

Explanatory failure:    A failure of explanatory goals resulting in an infinite regress of explanations. .

This may arise in the case of logical fallacies such as begging the question or from an attempt to investigate causes concerning origins or fundamental principles" 

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" A cosmological argument can also sometimes be referred to as an argument from universal causation, an argument from first cause, the causal argument or the prime mover argument." 

 

"In the philosophy of religion, a cosmological argument is an argument for the existence of god based upon 

 observational and factual statements concerning the universe (or some general category of its natural contents) 

 typically in the context of causation, change, contingency or finitude. 

In referring to reason and observation alone for its premises, and  

precluding revelation, 

 this category of argument falls within the domain of natural theology."

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_argument 

"waste time through aimless wandering or indecision."

dilly-dally   

"spend time"

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Tis the gift to be simple, ’tis the gift to be free

’tis the gift to come down where you ought to be

And when we find ourselves in the place just right

‘Twill be in the valley of love and delight.

When true simplicity is gained

To bow and to bend we shan’t be ashamed

To turn, turn will be our delight

‘Till by turning, turning we come round right.

‘Tis the gift to be simple, ’tis the gift to be free

’tis the gift to come down where you ought to be

And when we find ourselves in the place just right

‘Twill be in the valley of love and delight. 

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'In a finite hotel, if the hotel is full, there are no more rooms available. However, in Hilbert's Hotel, even when full, there's always a way to make room for a new guest due to the properties of infinite sets. "   

Suppose the hotel is next to an ocean, and an infinite number of car ferries arrive, each bearing an infinite number of coaches, each with an infinite number of passengers. This is a situation involving three "levels" of infinity, and it can be solved by extensions of any of the previous solutions.  

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"in an ordinary (finite) hotel with more than one room, the number of odd-numbered rooms is obviously smaller than the total number of rooms.  

However, in Hilbert's Grand Hotel, the quantity of odd-numbered rooms is not smaller than the total "number" of rooms"

"Hilbert's paradox is a veridical paradox: it leads to a counter-intuitive result that is provably true. "

"veridical paradox produces a result that appears counter to intuition, but is demonstrated to be true nonetheless:

That the Earth is an approximately spherical object 

 that is rotating and in rapid motion around the Sun,  

rather than the apparently obvious and common-sensical appearance of the Earth as a stationary approximately flat plane illuminated by a Sun that rises and falls throughout the day." 

"In logic, many paradoxes exist that are known to be invalid arguments, yet are nevertheless valuable in promoting critical thinking, while other paradoxes have revealed errors in definitions that were assumed to be rigorous, and have caused axioms of mathematics and logic to be re-examined.  

One example is Russell's paradox, which questions whether a  

"list of all lists that do not contain themselves"  

would include itself and showed that attempts to found set theory on the identification of sets with  

properties or predicates were flawed." 

"Examples outside logic include the ship of Theseus from philosophy, a paradox that questions  

whether a ship repaired over time by replacing each and all of its wooden parts 

 one at a time would remain the same ship." 

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"What the Tortoise Said to Achilles", written by Lewis Carroll in 1895 for the philosophical journal Mind, is a brief allegorical dialogue on the foundations of logic. 

The title alludes to one of Zeno's paradoxes of motion, in which Achilles could never overtake the tortoise in a race. " 

"In Carroll's dialogue, the tortoise challenges Achilles to use the force of logic to make him accept the conclusion of a simple deductive argument. 

 Ultimately, Achilles fails, because the clever tortoise leads him into an infinite regression"