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    It is not the case that Every being whose existence is merely possible requires an external cause to actualize it, as al-Kindi and later Avicenna maintained.

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    • 1.The distinction between 'possible' and 'necessary' may be epistemic, not metaphysical; all existence might be brute fact.
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    • 2.Why must an actualizer exist necessarily? Perhaps all beings are contingent, making the premise's conclusion circular.
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    • 3.Quantum indeterminacy suggests some events lack external causes, undermining the universal causal principle assumed here.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Possible beings lack necessity; without external causation, there's no explanation for why they exist rather than not.
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    • 2.An infinite regress of dependent causes is explanatorily unsatisfying; a necessary being must ground the chain.
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    • 3.Possibility and actuality are metaphysically distinct; transition between them requires an external actualizing agent.
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