"Causality produces both changing and unchanging things", is a contradictory statement. To produce a unchanging thing requires change. That's too messy for me, and inconsistent with my experience.David Quinn wrote:If a thing is unchanging, it is only because it is caused to be unchanging. Causality produces both changing and unchanging things.Whatshappening wrote:Logical truths can't change, so they are not subject to cause and effect. To ask for first cause is to ask for the impossible.
However it seems to me it's a bigger issue then just logical truths. Isn't it the case that every specific condition has specific associated truths?
Isn't it the case that these associated truths never change?
Logical truths are causally created. The truth that 1+1 equals 2, for example, is created out of the specific forms of 1, 2 and equals. If these things were different, then that truth would be different. So it is true what you say, that each specific thing automatically has its own specific truths, simply from the way it exists.
Another example is the one you mentioned - namely, that there is only one everything. This truth is generated out of the manner of what everything is. If everything were different, then the truth associated with it would be different.
In other words, all logical truths are causally created.
Ultimately, the only thing that is without cause is Nature itself - the totality/everything. Being everything, there is nothing else it depends on.David, can you think of anything else?
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Let me ask you something, when does truth become true?
Lastly, " Being everything, there is nothing else it depends on.", means reality is self sustaining.
Sustaining
Gary