Why there can't be a Self-Explanatory Series of Infinite Past Events

Abstract

Based on a recently published essay by Jeremy Gwiazda, I argue that the possibility that the present state of the universe is the product of an actually infinite series of causally-ordered prior events is impossible in principle, and thus that a major criticism of the Secunda Via of St. Thomas is baseless after all.

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Steven Merle Duncan
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