PHILOS 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Definition
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Is there a first beginning of everything? if anything happens or exits, it has to be a reason or a cause. Like event a is caused by b, a(cid:374)d e(cid:448)e(cid:374)t b is (cid:272)aused (cid:271)(cid:455) e(cid:448)e(cid:374)t c so o(cid:374) a(cid:374)d so o(cid:374). It seems like it can go on forever. But if the past is infinite, then it would take an infinite amount of time to reach the current moment. Since we are at the current moment, therefore, the past must have a beginning. However, what puzzling is that it seems arbitrary when we try to locate a beginning. One response for the puzzle is that infinite sequence of negative integers implies the possibility of an infinity past. There are infinitely many numbers before 0 but it does not raise a question about how 0 was reached, therefore an infinite past should not be any more puzzling that.
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