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    Supports→The universe does not need a causal explanation

    Hume's Dialogues demonstrate that the universe as a whole may be its own explanatory terminus, a 'brute fact' requiring no further grounding, as its denial generates infinite regress without resolution.

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    Key Terms

    Dialogues(the literary form Plato chose for his works)
    Plato's philosophical writings that are written as conversations between characters (usually Socrates and others) debating ideas rather than as straightforward essays or arguments.
    Explanatory terminus(as used in epistemology and metaphysics)
    The final stopping point in an explanation—the ultimate reason or cause that doesn't need further explanation.
    Hume(as the main philosopher discussed in this statement)
    David Hume was an 18th-century Scottish philosopher who argued that human knowledge comes from experience and observation rather than pure reasoning alone.
    brute fact(Used in the context of whether predicative facts require metaphysical grounding)
    A fact that does not have an explanation
    grounding

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    (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.
    infinite regress(modes of argumentation available to a dogmatist)
    An argument structure in which grounds are offered for a claim P, then grounds for those grounds, and so on indefinitely without ever repeating a proposition

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