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A RESPONSE TO LOKE'S ‘IS AN INFINITE TEMPORAL REGRESS OF EVENTS POSSIBLE?’ (THINK 31)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2013

Peter Lyth
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Abstract

Loke argues against the possibility of any infinite collection, mainly on the grounds that number as an abstract entity (if it exists) cannot have causal power. But I argue that his argument conflates number as an abstract entity with number as a number of events or things. Loke also maintains that a situation of ‘infinities upon infinities’ poses problems, and I argue against this. Finally, Loke queries how an ‘extra’ can be added to an infinite collection, but I suggest this is here a misleading word.

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Research Article
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Think , Volume 13 , Issue 36 , Spring 2014 , pp. 85 - 88
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2014 

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