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    If causal necessity is not an objective feature of realit... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→There exists a first cause or ground of the cosmos that is, at least in part, not identical to the cosmos itself.

    If causal necessity is not an objective feature of reality, P2's claim that existence 'requires' a first cause lacks ontological force and reduces to a psychological tendency.

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    • 1.If causal necessity were objective, we could derive it from physical laws alone, yet physics describes regularities without necessitation.
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    • 2.Human minds project necessity onto constant conjunctions; this cognitive pattern explains why causation *feels* obligatory without being so.
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    • 3.Theological arguments claiming existence 'requires' a cause smuggle in normative assumptions about what reality 'must' do or contain.
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    • 1.Mathematical and logical truths appear objective yet involve necessary relations; this shows objectivity doesn't require physical instantiation.
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    • 2.Even if causal necessity is mind-dependent in origin, it may still accurately track real structural features of how things actually relate.
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    • 3.The distinction between psychological tendency and objective feature collapses if our cognitive access to causation is calibrated to reality.
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