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Subject: Confession of much apathy

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Damoclese

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Date Posted: 03/15/04 5:29pm
In reply to: Wade A. Tisthammer 's message, "Where are the assumptions?" on 03/15/04 12:23pm

Your new argument:

"If an infinite past is metaphysically possible, then Shandy writing his autobiography for as long as time has existed should not lead to absurdities.

If Shandy has been writing from eternity past (i.e. has been writing all along the infinite, beginningless past) he is either infinitely far behind or he finishes his autobiography at some point."

How can we be expected to invision something accurately that may or may not have metaphysical existence? That's an assumption.

That's like saying if it is possible for a neon toad three headed guppy that lives in a six dimensional plane and has a six dimensional body is metaphysically possible...

How in the world do I even begin to invision such a thing?

Anyway, at this point I'm rather fatigued with the whole thing. You can keep on believing this argument proves or at least generates a contradiction for a metaphysical past, and my life will be non-impacted. I'm really not sure why I carried on this far. I guess maybe I thought someone who seems to cherish logic as much as you do would readily recognize the veracity of the statement that a deductive argument is only as good as the assumptions, and the assumptions are always many.

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Subject	Author	Date
If you're apathetic about this, why have you continued so far?	Wade A. Tisthammer	03/18/04 9:55am