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    It is not the case that The cosmos is contingent, sharing a key similarity with its content.

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    Reasons For

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    • 1.The inference from parts to whole commits the fallacy of composition, as wholes can possess properties absent from their constituents.
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    • 2.Bertrand Russell noted the cosmos as a brute fact needs no explanation beyond itself, making contingency attribution to the whole unwarranted.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Spinoza's monism entails that the totality of existence is necessarily self-caused (causa sui), making the cosmos necessary rather than contingent.
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    • 2.If the cosmos is identical to God or Nature (Deus sive Natura), attributing contingency to it conflates modal categories that apply only to finite modes.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Both the cosmos and its content are contingent.
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    • 2.If the components of the universe are contingent, the universe itself is contingent.
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