European Journal for Philosophy of Science 12 (online early):1-14 (2022)
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The Nothing from Infinity paradox arises when the combination of two infinitudes of point particles meet in a supertask and disappear. Corral-Villate claims that my arguments for disappearance fail and concedes that this failure also produces an extreme kind of indeterminism, which I have called plenitudinous. So my supertask at least poses a dilemma of extreme indeterminism within Newtonian point particle mechanics. Plenitudinous indeterminism might be trivial, although easy attempts to prove it so seem to fail in the face of plausible continuity principles. However, the question of its triviality is here moot, since I show that, except in one case, Corral-Villate’s disproofs fail, and with a correction, the original arguments are unrefuted. Consequently, of the two contenders for the outcome of my supertask, the Nothing from Infinity paradox has won out.
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Keywords | Nothing from Infinity paradox vanishing indeterminism plenitudinous indeterminism composition argument continuity principle continuity argument |
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DOI | 10.1007/s13194-022-00463-z |
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On Shackel’s nothing from infinity paradox.Amaia Corral-Villate - 2020 - European Journal for Philosophy of Science 10 (3):1-13.
The Infinity From Nothing Paradox and the Immovable Object Meets the Irresistible Force.Nicholas Shackel - 2018 - European Journal for Philosophy of Science 8 (3):417-433.
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