(2024-01-08, 08:40 PM)nbtruthman Wrote: If we refine the problem down to why in causation some particular thing can happen rather than any of an infinite number of other possibilities, then we can further refine it down to just the mystery of why there is something rather than absolutely nothing.
I don't see why this would follow?
We know within the Something that includes our existence that change happens in myriad ways, and there at least seems to be a relation between certain states (causes) and certain later states (effects).
We're never trying to get Something from Nothing, just trying to ground the fact that isolated sections of Something can be altered in their apparent properties by other sections of Something.
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell
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