Would it be easier to imagine a universe with only one thing if that one thing were a simple, point-like object, with no spatial extension or internal structure? — Arkady
A simpleton universe could just be 'one' "thing" in it's entirety (indivisible.... — jorndoe
Can you explain how something comes into existence from absolutely nothing? — Metaphysician Undercover
Something indivisible can't have dimensions. — Wayfarer
Can you explain 9:32 coming into existence from absolutely nothing? — Metaphysician Undercover
It could be physically indivisible with dimensions. — Terrapin Station
Can you explain how something comes into existence from absolutely nothing? — Metaphysician Undercover
[According to Aquinas] ...the Creator does not create something out of nothing in the sense of taking some nothing and making something out of it. This is a conceptual mistake, for it treats nothing as a something. On the contrary, the Christian doctrine of Creation ex nihilo claims that God made the universe without making it out of anything. In other words, anything left entirely to itself, completely separated from the cause of its existence, would not exist—it would be absolutely nothing. The ultimate cause of the existence of anything and everything is God who creates—not out of some nothing, but from nothing at all.
If it has dimensions, then how can it be a simple unity? — Wayfarer
At any rate, it seems like you don't really get the fundamental concept of a thought experiment, as you're wondering how it could obtain in the real world. — Terrapin Station
Your thought experiment was introduced to explain how you understand "change". — Metaphysician Undercover
Change can logically obtain with two events that have no causal connection to each other and that aren't states of some other thing. — Terrapin Station
You're changing the subject. — Metaphysician Undercover
Change can logically obtain with two events that have no causal connection to each other and that aren't states of some other thing. — Terrapin Station
You're just not following along very well. — Terrapin Station
Am I not correct to assume that "an event", being a happening, is itself a change? — Metaphysician Undercover
I would say that each of these changes, in order that they are changes, must be related to some other thing. — Metaphysician Undercover
I know you think that, but I just don't know why you do . . . — Terrapin Station
It doesn't seem to be something we could move you away from without a lot of work. — Terrapin Station
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