After all, if something was obviously true and accepted by everyone, we wouldn't have an axiom for it, would we? — Pussycat
Sure, I agree that's the case, but "numbers" is not a thing. — Metaphysician Undercover
Actually I believe that numbers ARE things — Fuzzball Baggins
I was arguing that just because we can't empirically observe an infinite thing doesn't mean that it's always unreasonable to assume the existence of an infinite thing. — Fuzzball Baggins
Here's another example: something caused the big bang. In the absence of any evidence indicating that this event could only happen once, the hypothesis that are physical laws which cause big bangs to spontaneously happen at random point in time and space is more simple and relies on fewer assumptions than the hypothesis that something caused only one big bang to happen and then something else stopped that process from reoccurring. Because of this I can infer that a multitude of big bangs have always been and will always be happening, and therefore there is an infinite multiverse. — Fuzzball Baggins
I was arguing that just because we can't empirically observe an infinite thing doesn't mean that it's always unreasonable to assume the existence of an infinite thing. — Fuzzball Baggins
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