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What do you think?

Kyle wrote: "What do you think?"

An interlocutor on TikTok recommended this book to me. He was using an argument from Feser but was having a little trouble articulating it, so I decided to give Feser a read. I'm still in the first (Aristotelian) proof, but so far I'm tracking his line of reasoning pretty well. It starts with an informal version of the argument and then moves to a formal articulation, so it is easy enough to understand but retains the necessary technical nuance.

He addresses some hypothetical objections to the argument, however, I don't think he sufficiently defends the premise that concurrent hierarchical contingencies demand a purely actual actualizer (which is my main objection, and naturally a necessary step for the argument to work). Like, I see how one could come to that conclusion, but I don't see any compelling reason that one /ought/ to accept it rather than just reject it.