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    It is not the case that The necessary being to which the cosmological argument concludes is God (or at least has properties appropriate to a divine being).

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    • 1.A necessary being need only possess the property of necessary existence, not omnipotence, omniscience, or moral perfection.
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    • 2.Spinoza's substance and the universe itself qualify as necessary beings without possessing theistically relevant divine attributes.
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    • 3.The inference from 'necessary existence' to 'divine properties' commits a non-sequitur unless additional premises bridge metaphysical necessity and theological perfection.
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    • 1.Hume's Dialogues establishes that the causal principle 'whatever exists has a cause' can terminate at the material universe itself, construed as self-explanatory.
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    • 2.If the universe or its constituent laws can be assigned the status of necessary existence, the cosmological argument underdetermines the conclusion that the necessary being is personal or God.
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    • From the concept of a necessary being flow properties appropriate to a divine being.
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