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    Supports→The version of the PSR used by traditional defenders of the cosmological argument is inadequate because it fails to provide the best explanation for the universe.

    If contingent facts about a necessary being's nature remain unexplained, the cosmological argument trades one set of brute contingencies for another without genuine explanatory gain.

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    Key Terms

    Brute contingencies(as used in metaphysics and logic)
    Facts or things that exist without explanation—they just happen to be the way they are with no deeper reason why.
    Explanatory gain(as used in epistemology and logic)
    Actually helping us understand something better—if something doesn't explain anything or make things clearer, it has no explanatory gain.
    contingent facts(Contrasted with necessary truths that metaphysics seeks to establish)
    Facts that happen to obtain but could have been otherwise; the kind of fact that empirical investigation is capable of revealing
    cosmological argument(Swinburne's general characterization)
    An argument that the fact that there is a universe needs explaining, typically by appeal to a cause or ground outside the universe
    nature (of a being)

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    The essential characteristics or way of being that defines what something is.
    necessary being(Theistic metaphysics)
    A being that exists and is God in every possible world

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