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    It is not the case that If an infinite series of contingent beings can constitute a completed whole, the demand for an external necessary cause dissolves, since no member lacks a cause within the series.

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    • 1.Explaining each member via prior members leaves the existence of the entire series as a brute fact, which is unexplained.
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    • 2.Infinity cannot constitute a 'completed whole' that is actually present; only finite wholes can be causally self-contained totalities.
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    • 3.Even if members are pairwise caused, the fact that contingent beings exist at all (rather than nothing) requires external necessity.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Causation within a series can be complete if each member's existence is explained by prior members, requiring no external ground.
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    • 2.An infinite regress of causes is logically coherent if every link in the chain is itself explained, avoiding explanatory gaps.
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    • 3.The demand for external necessity conflates the need for local causes with the need for global explanation of the series itself.
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