/lit/ - Literature

>>14311262
Are potentials existing entities or a category contrived from the concept of possibility? The argument from motion relies on the mutually reliant categories of potential and actual, but "potential ice" is water and "potential roses" are seeds. I see no reason to accept the category of potentials as a category of existing things so argument comes down to the idea that nothing can be brought into existence without an existing actor. This brings back the dilemmas Feser (arguably the most shilled thomist on the internet) claims Aquinas avoids. What, other than human experience, validates the claim that ex nihilo nihil fit? Without the mind-numbing talk of non-existent potentials, what of the 7 "interesting attributes" on slide 12 would hold up, forgetting my other objection?

Aquinas was a pseud nigger

>>14300717
La Crise du Monde Moderne, don't really agree with everything but tryna grasp Guenon's thought

I’m getting desperate, if you guys name a college major I’ll do it. Holy fuck why can’t I give a shit about business or engineering or whatever. I just want to be dirt poor but also not want to blow my brains out when I’m forty. Fuck.

>be me
>haven’t read since I was a kid really
>pretty sure online shit has fried my dopamine receptors and given me ADD or something

I just want to be able to read more than five pages again.