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Can anyone provide an argument for a necessary being?

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Can anyone provide an argument for a necessary being?
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RE: Can anyone provide an argument for a necessary being?
April 22, 2014 at 7:19 am
(April 21, 2014 at 11:10 pm)Metalogos Wrote: The latter could not accept that all things have been in motion from eternity and so cognized an agent for the initial action, i.e., the Prime Mover.

I have an issue with the way you use cognize here. Cognize essentially means 'to know'. It does not mean hypothesize, speculate, imagine, or 'make shit up' as you seem to be using it.
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RE: Can anyone provide an argument for a necessary being? - by Cato - April 22, 2014 at 7:19 am

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