PHLA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Reductio Ad Absurdum, Natural Philosophy, Fallacy
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2 options: there must be some explanation. It exists without any explanation for its existence. In the case of any positive truth, there is some su cient reason for it there is some sort of explanation, known, or unknown, for everything. Is it a contingent truth? (statement whose negation does not imply a contradiction in reality, such that the negation could have been the case) Is it a necessary truth? (statement whose negation must imply a contradiction in reality, such that the negation would be impossible ) Attributes is improperly transferred (pizza cheese is stretchy but the pizza isn"t stretchy itself) If taylor is right, then this just leads to an in nite regress of su cient causes. If god didn"t come into being, then maybe the universe didn"t either. Even if the universe existed forever, its existence is still dependant on something like the light from a ame. That something is the creator, and we call it god.
