Posted: Jul 10, 2011 2:59 pm
hackenslash wrote: Who's doing the adding here? Do you even know what infinity is? It is simply an unquantifiable amount. A number that we have no means of dealing with. Certainly we can't reach infinity by the successive addition of integers, but that doesn't mean that infinity can never be reached by accumulation, because that would render infinity absurd.
Exactly. Craig's childish little mind games are no different than Zeno's paradoxes of motion. In theory, of course, the parodoxes are difficult to resolve. But we know as an empricial fact that the faster runner catches the slower runner, a passenger always gets to a stationary bus, and an arrow always reaches its destination. According to Craig's line of thinking, none of those things happen.