Quote:If we use the vocabulary that LadyforCamus suggests, I think it's clear why there has to be a first in the chain of essential causes.1.Nope
She suggests that the brute fact that things is exist is where we begin. I think that's a reasonable way to formulate the argument.
2.This fact does not lead to a first cause
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