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    It is not the case that 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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    Reasons For

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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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    Reasons Against

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    Reason against 1 of 2
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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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    Reason against 2 of 2
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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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