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The cosmological view

שו”תCategory: philosophyThe cosmological view
asked 1 year ago

Hello Rabbi. I also wanted to ask if I accept induction as a basic premise and the law of causality, is it true that matter itself has a cause? It is understandable that our search for a cause is only in familiar things such as various combinations or phenomena, but there is no intuitive perception at all about the very existence of matter, that it has never existed.
All of this is assuming that I do not accept the descriptions of the Big Bang. (As you wrote in God plays dice, this affects the cosmological view in this context….)


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מיכי Staff answered 2 weeks ago
In my opinion, the very existence of matter also speaks volumes. It is not something ancient and must have a reason.

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motti94311 replied 1 year ago

Does the intuition of causality come alone? Perhaps it comes to us only because we have an induction that things that happen are related to other things and that is a cause, but in principle the intuition of causality does not exist and in any case it will not exist in the context of the existence of matter.
That is, a person who grows up alone and does not see a cause and effect in his life will not think that causality exists. We who have seen a cause and effect assume that there is a cause for other things because induction is an intuition that we certainly assume, but how does this mean that matter itself has a cause?

מיכי Staff replied 1 year ago

Induction is no more well-founded than causality. Furthermore, there is no induction here either because causality cannot be observed even in a single case.

motti94311 replied 1 year ago

I don't fully understand. Rani agrees that induction is no longer based, but it is an intuition that simply exists in me. But about causality, I say that it exists in me only because I encounter it, and I encounter causality in various phenomena, but about the very existence of matter, I am not sure that I have an intuition that it has a cause.

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