LessonsThe Originator of the World: Necessary Existence, Infinite Regress and the Correspondence ProofQuiz

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This correspondence procedure is said to apply only to what has entered existence.

The restriction identifies the intended domain: a supposedly actual series of causal existents, not every sequence that the mind can describe.

Thinking “one, two, three, four…” does not by itself produce a chain of existing causes. This is the historical response to the numerical objection. The distinction is important, even though it does not automatically settle every philosophical question about the correspondence argument.

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Actual existents versus merely conceived sequences

The Originator of the World: Necessary Existence, Infinite Regress and the Correspondence Proof

وهذا التطبيق إنما يمكن فيما دخل تحت الوجود
This correspondence procedure is said to apply only to what has entered existence.

The restriction identifies the intended domain: a supposedly actual series of causal existents, not every sequence that the mind can describe.

Thinking “one, two, three, four…” does not by itself produce a chain of existing causes. This is the historical response to the numerical objection. The distinction is important, even though it does not automatically settle every philosophical question about the correspondence argument.