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    Hume's regress objection applies: any non-analogical cosm... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Schema 2 would not be vulnerable to the ills of analogy and would claim more than mere probability for its conclusion.

    Hume's regress objection applies: any non-analogical cosmological argument must still justify its first principles, which cannot be done without circularity or induction.

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    • 1.All justificatory chains must terminate somewhere; if they terminate in unjustified principles, those principles lack rational warrant.
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    • 2.Cosmological arguments typically assume principles (causality, sufficient reason) without deriving them from prior justified premises.
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    • 3.Circular reasoning and inductive reasoning both fail to establish necessary truths required by cosmological arguments about existence.
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    • 1.Basic logical and metaphysical principles need not be justified by further premises; they may be self-evident or foundational axioms.
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    • 2.Hume's regress assumes all justification requires prior justification, but this assumes infinitism is the only alternative to circularity.
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    • 3.Cosmological arguments can appeal to direct intuition or a priori knowledge of causality, not requiring external justification at all.
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