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God created the real numbers

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136 points Bogdanp | 1 comments | 29 Aug 25 15:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.198s | source
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ajuc ◴[29 Aug 25 22:02 UTC] No.45069933[source]▶
> the principle that there is more reality in a cause than in its effect

What a weird idea. Why would that be?

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1. grg0 ◴[29 Aug 25 22:31 UTC] No.45070141[source]▶
Not that I am well-versed in this, but it seems this is the cause-effect equivalent of the whole containing the part and not the other way around (or something greater can contain something smaller, but not conversely.)