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    It is not the case that There exists a first cause or ground of the cosmos that is, at least in part, not identical to the cosmos itself.

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    • 1.The principle of sufficient reason, when applied universally, generates vicious regress or requires the cosmos itself to be its own sufficient reason.
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    • 2.If the cosmos can be its own sufficient reason, no external first cause is logically necessitated by P2.
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    • 3.Spinoza's substance monism demonstrates a coherent metaphysical system in which the single infinite substance is causa sui, requiring no external ground.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Hume's Enquiry establishes that causal necessity is a habit of mind projected onto experience, not a feature of reality itself.
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    • 2.If causal necessity is not an objective feature of reality, P2's claim that existence 'requires' a first cause lacks ontological force and reduces to a psychological tendency.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Something exists — the cosmos or some empirical content of experience — rather than nothing.
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    • 2.The existence of something requires a first cause or sufficient ground for that existence.
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