If uncaused physical beginnings are coherent at the quantum level, the claim that all beginnings require causes is not a necessary metaphysical truth but at best a contingent regularity.

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Metaphysical truth(what Plato is asserting about the nature of the account): A claim about what is actually real and fundamental to reality itself, not just about how we should behave or what something means symbolically.
Quantum level(as the scale at which part-whole containment fails): The world of extremely tiny things like electrons and photons, where the normal rules of everyday physics break down and things behave in strange, unpredictable ways.
coherent(de Finetti's usage in the context of the Dutch Book argument for probabilism): A subject is coherent if their unconditional degrees of belief do not permit a Dutch Book (a guaranteed loss through a combination of bets) to be made against them
contingent(De Interpretatione 12–13): Equated with 'possible'; on the two-sided interpretation, contingency excludes necessity (possibility implies non-necessity).

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