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#14 — William Lane Craig | The Kalam Cosmological Argument

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The Distinction Between the Potential and Actual Infinite

People think that if a potential infinite is something like two spaces the space between two objects being infinitely divisible. That would imply that actual infinite do exist in between any two spaces. The problem with that is that it is guilty of a modal operator shift. It is true that possibly a line is divided here and here and here at infinite. But it doesn't follow that there is a place where the line is possibly divided. And I would say that a line is not a composition of points that the line is logically prior to any points that you specify on it.

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