You really don't understand my "stumbling block".
"Trials" are not the same as dominoes. That is a highly inaccurate comparison.
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Quote by: Kame Just to make sure I'm not the one confused - what did you come into the argument intending to prove? |
You're confused.
Look at the title of this thread... "thought experiment".
As such, any and every idea is welcome and entertained. But the problem, as I noted in my first post in the thread, and to which I received agreement, is that the premises of your "thought experiment" are flawed.
If you wanted to talk about infinite regression, then you should have done so.
If you wanted an argument, then you shouldn't have called it a thought experiment.
So yes, you're the one confused.
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Now let's look at your confusion.
I can go back to your intent to create this thread as the cause and show the resulting opening post as the effect.
But what you are suggesting is going back so far as to say that your parents, and their parents, and their parents, are the cause of you creating a contradictory opening post.
That makes absolutely no sense.
If you don't believe me, go to school tomorrow and punch someone in the face. Then just say that it's Al Gore's fault.
After all, he developed the Internet, which made it possible for me to communicate to you the idea to punch someone, which gave you the intention, which you effected by punching.
Does that sound stupid to you?