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The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.
RE: The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.
(July 10, 2023 at 2:17 pm)polymath257 Wrote: I think the  problem is in the word 'first'. The usual argument only gives the existence of an *uncaused* cause. As you point out, there is nothing that says that uncaused cause is unique.

Depends on whether the law of identity kicks because everything true of the one is also true in the same way and degree as it is of the other. Is there a difference?
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RE: The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress. - by Neo-Scholastic - July 12, 2023 at 11:14 pm

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