Counting to infinity, successive addition, and the length of the past
The Successive Addition Argument (SAA) is one of the arguments proposed by the defenders of the Kalām Cosmological Argument to support the claim that the universe has a beginning. The main premise of SAA states that a collection formed by successive addition cannot be an actual infinite. This premis...
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International journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 92, Issue: 3, Pages: 167-176 |
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The Successive Addition Argument
B Beginning of the universe B Dretske’s objection B Kalām Cosmological Argument B Finitism B Counting to infinity |
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