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    It is possible that a causal series came into existence u... — Carmelics
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    It is possible that a causal series came into existence uncreated or has always existed without any further cause or ground for its existence

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    • 1.Hume's Dialogues demonstrate that the Principle of Sufficient Reason is not a necessary truth but a contingent methodological assumption.
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    • 2.If PSR is merely contingent, then its negation—that some things lack sufficient reason—is itself possible without contradiction.
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    • 3.A causal series existing without further ground violates no logical law, only a defeasible explanatory preference.
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    • 1.Quantum mechanics provides empirical grounding for uncaused events, suggesting brute existence is not merely conceivable but physically instantiated.
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    • 2.Graham Priest's dialetheism and David Lewis's modal realism both permit that existence facts can be primitive, needing no further ontological grounding.
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    • 3.If concrete possible worlds or quantum vacuum states can exist as brute facts, an infinite causal series existing without external cause is at minimum co-possible.
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    • 1.It is possible for something to begin to exist without any cause
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    • 2.Whatever is conceivable or non-contradictory is possible
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    It is evident that the foundations of this argument rest with the related causal principles that everything must have a cause or ground for its existence and that no effect can have any perfection that is not also in its cause. To deny either of these causal principles is, on Clarke’s account, to reject the more general principle that “nothing can come from nothing” (a principle that the atheists such as Lucretius have themselves acknowledged). In the Treatise Hume develops an account of causati
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