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To: wideawake

So there can be an infinite series of movers and causes?


63 posted on 03/26/2013 11:11:34 AM PDT by stuartcr ("I have habits that are older than the people telling me they're bad for me.")
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To: stuartcr
Is it movers or is it causes?

Do you mean an infinite series of movers and moved, or an infinite series of causes and effects?

In either case, there cannot be, because the infinite loop would need to be complete and consistent - a self-contained system.

This, however, is not logically possible. It would involve finite entities generating an uncountably infinite series of effects - but a finite set of entities (or described logically: rules, or sentences) cannot generate such a cloud of effects using an internally consistent algorithm.

64 posted on 03/26/2013 11:20:03 AM PDT by wideawake
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