Finitism and Divisibility: A Reply to Puryear

Australasian Journal of Philosophy 94 (3):596-601 (2016)
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Puryear develops an objection against a prominent attempt to show that the universe must have a temporal beginning. Here I formulate a reply.

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10.1080/00048402.2015.1107601

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