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    Supports→Aquinas's identification of the first cause with the God of religion goes beyond what the causal reasoning of the cosmological argument strictly establishes.

    Attributes like omniscience, moral goodness, and personal agency are not entailed by causal primacy alone, as Hume demonstrates in the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Part IV.

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    Key Terms

    Causal primacy(as the way God relates to creatures)
    The idea that God is the ultimate cause or source of everything that exists, meaning all created things depend on God to exist.
    David Hume(as referenced in the statement)
    An 18th-century Scottish philosopher who argued that our desires and emotions, not reason alone, drive our actions and decisions.
    Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion(the specific work being referenced)
    A famous book by Hume written as conversations between characters debating whether the universe shows signs of being designed by an intelligent creator.
    Moral goodness(describing God's moral perfection)
    The quality of being perfectly ethical and always choosing what is right and just.
    Part IV (of Dialogues)

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    (as the specific section being referenced)
    The fourth section of Hume's book, where the characters debate whether the design of the universe proves God exists and what qualities God would have.
    Personal agency(as what would have to be abolished to fully neutralize luck according to Cohen's argument)
    Your ability to make your own free choices and be responsible for your own actions, rather than being completely controlled by circumstances or systems.
    entailed(as used in logic)
    When one thing logically forces another thing to be true—if the first is true, the second must be true too.
    omniscience(The passage tests omniscience against mathematical undecidability)
    The property of knowing everything; used here to probe whether divine knowledge extends to undecided mathematical propositions.

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