An infinite causal chain where each event has a sufficient prior cause fully explains why any present event occurred—no additional 'first cause' grounding is required for local explanation.

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First Cause(Used to explain why scientific axioms fall short of perfect correspondence to reality): The ultimate explanatory ground of reality, complete understanding of which would ground perfect knowledge of scientific axioms
Local explanation(contrasts with needing a universal or ultimate explanation): An explanation for why something specific happened in a particular situation, without needing to explain everything in the universe.
causal chain(Avicenna's cosmological argument in Ilāhiyyāt VIII): An ordered series of causes within a given causal type (formal, material, efficient, or final) that Avicenna argues must terminate in a First Cause
grounding(Drawn from contemporary metaphysics; proposed as potentially applicable to understanding the foundations of legality.): A metaphysical relation in which some entities or facts are more foundational than others, providing a hierarchical structure of the world.

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