Ungrounded causal chains and beginningless time
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https://doi.org/10.12775/LLP.2009.014Keywords
recursively defined function, Benardete’s paradox, Yablo’s paradox, causality, time, irreversibilityAbstract
We use two logical resources, namely, the notion of recursively defined function and the Benardete-Yablo paradox, together with some inherent features of causality and time, as usually conceived, to derive two results: that no ungrounded causal chain exists and that time has a beginning.References
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