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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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