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    Challenges→The cosmological argument is defective.

    If every contingent fact demands an explanation and no infinite regress of contingent causes suffices, a necessary being follows without presupposing its own concept guarantees existence.

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    Key Terms

    Contingent fact(contrasting with tautological features that don't require explanation)
    Something that happens to be true in the real world but could have been otherwise—the opposite of something that must be true by definition.
    demands an explanation(as used in arguments about causality)
    Requires a reason or cause for why it exists or is true. The idea that nothing just happens randomly without some reason behind it.
    infinite regress(modes of argumentation available to a dogmatist)
    An argument structure in which grounds are offered for a claim P, then grounds for those grounds, and so on indefinitely without ever repeating a proposition
    necessary being(Theistic metaphysics)
    A being that exists and is God in every possible world
    presupposing its own concept guarantees existence

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    (as used in ontological arguments about God's existence)
    The idea that simply knowing what something is proves it must exist. For example, if we say 'God is the most perfect being,' does that automatically mean God has to be real?

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