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#664 – Alex O’ Connor deconstructs Ben Shapiro and Ed Feser (REBUTTED)

The Counsel of Trent

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Is There a Potential Infinite?

In order to avoid Parmenides objections, we needed to say that all of the potential properties of this coffee are real. This isn't something tending towards infinity as I counted out. These things are thought of as actually existing as potential properties of my coffee right now. Alex's first objection basically says, the argument from motion results in two statements contradicting each other so they can't both be true. They are actual infinities cannot exist and an actually infinite number of potentials exist. Now one way you could resolve this objection is by dropping the first statement. My colleague Jimmy Akin thinks God could make anactually infinite number of objects. And so there would be no contradiction in Jimmy's

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