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>>15351202
The point of the analogy is not at all to compare time with a paint brush, it is to compare the infinite chain of actuality (or contingency) to an infinitely long paint brush. As I said it has nothing to do with time, as the regress is hierarchical, it is happening here and now. If all things that come into being are contingent, it doesn't matter how far back the chain of contingency goes in time, if there is no un-contingent ground of contingency, then by definition nothing can exist, as all things would be reliant or contingent on something that doesn't exist.

How to get into Catholic Philosophy? Where do you start?

What is difference between modern logic as in CS, and classical logic, like Aquinas, Aristotle or Occam?