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WHAT does it mean to say that the Universe had a beginning or will have an end and of what sort of proof are these propositions susceptible?
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Aristotle, On the Heavens, Book i, chapter 10—Book ii, chapter 1.
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I have not produced detailed counter-arguments to deal with each of these criticisms individually, but consider that I have met all the criticisms in this chapter and in Chapters i and 14 of this book. For a general attempt to show that many such criticisms are invalid see:
G. H. Bird, ‘The Beginning of the Universe ‘, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume, 1966, 40, 139–50.
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Swinburne, R. (1968). The Beginning and End of the Universe. In: Space and Time. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00581-9_16
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