The “Prime Mover” is the primary cause of all motion and is eternal. Something cannot be a cause of something else without that something else appearing, else it really isn’t the cause. Because the primary cause of all motion is eternal, motion itself must also be eternal.
The Prime Mover did not begin the universe, but rather is at the very foundation of any and all motion (aka “spirit”). The physical universe is made entirely of the changing, the motion itself, physical spirit. And such motion continues eternally because the Prime Mover for it is eternal (yet not itself physical).
You don’t because definitional logic is questionable. That is why movement can not be defined, hence it is not of consciousness, therefore, Parmenidies was right. There is only appearent knowledge. Knowledge of movement is appearance, as is knowledge it’s self. Reality is different.
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“Definitional Logic” merely means that the words and concepts being used are clearly explained/defined and remain consistent throughout the reasoning. Definitional Logic prevents ambiguity in the language.
Not necessarily. If ausation has always existed, there need not be a cause for it, only a reason for why it has always existed (which turns out to be the impossibility of it not existing).
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“Definitional Logic” merely means that the words and concepts being used are clearly explained/defined and remain consistent throughout the reasoning. Definitional Logic prevents ambiguity in the language.[
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James,
That explanation turns on the relationship between logic and language. If, definitional logic is merely a tool to avoid confusions caused by definition, then it begs the ontological basis of logic per se.
There is no avoiding to this primary conflation, because language is primordial to logic, or, is it?
That’s the problem with trying to define logic, primarily. The definitional explanation is on a less complex level. Which gets back to the problem of the Dasein.
Causation is another form of relationship, between existence, and being. It can be inferred into existence, but it can also be referred to non existence, as is in the case of the uncaused causation. Referential logic has been post-scribed by inference.
No. Causation, as I said, can have existed eternally (and necessarily has).
The “Uncaused Cause”, “Prime Mover”, “God”, is defined as an eternal entity. The confusion is that many people believe that it all had to begin. It didn’t ever begin, because it was never without.
No, “change” is not a synonym for “cause”. “Caused” refers to a change that was instigated by something. "Change doesn’t require that.
No. When “uncaused” merely means “has always existed”, there is no begging the question involved.
So at first there was the Prime Mover (spiritual) and the universe (physical) and thus two universal realms: (1) the spiritual realm as the foundation of any and all motion (changing); (2) the physical realm containing the motion itself (physical spirit).
But the physical spirit is the most essential of all spirits, next to the Uncaused Cause. The physical Spirit is the highest Archangel, who unfortunately fell, because he got too close to IT.