Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id PAA24620 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 3 Apr 2001 15:59:07 +0100 Message-ID: <3AC9E466.7059FC06@bioinf.man.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 15:55:34 +0100 From: Chris Taylor <Christopher.Taylor@man.ac.uk> Organization: University of Manchester X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Determinism References: <20010403141707.AAA24302@camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Nothing is a causeless thing.
Nothing doesn't need a cause because only things are caused. Without a
cause there is no thing. Nothing is not a thing - you can't draw a line
around it, it is merely the place that a thing (which would have to be
caused to be) might be, and is therefore undeterminable.
Or...
If I had a gun to my head, I might even say that nothing's cause is that
which causes nothing to occur, i.e. the absence of a cause produces
nothing, therefore that is its cause.
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