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    There is no ultimate origin or first cause of thing-events — Carmelics
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    There is no ultimate origin or first cause of thing-events

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    • 1.A signifies 'primal non-origination' (ādyanutpāda), meaning the origin of all things is itself without origin
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    • 2.The chain of conditions behind each thing-event is endless and never reaches an ultimate ground
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    • 1.Aquinas's Third Way argues that a chain of contingent beings requires at least one necessary being to explain why anything exists rather than nothing.
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    • 2.An infinite regress of conditions explains the order of conditions but cannot explain why there is a series of conditions at all, leaving existence itself unexplained.
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    • 3.The Principle of Sufficient Reason (Leibniz) demands that the existence of any contingent series must have a reason external to that series itself.
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    • 1.Aristotle demonstrates in Physics VIII that an infinite regress of moved movers is logically incoherent because actual motion requires an actually operating cause, not a potential infinite chain.
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    • 2.The claim that 'the origin of all things is itself without origin' is self-referentially unstable unless the uncaused origin is itself real, which concedes a terminus to the causal regress.
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    Kūkai in several works (especially in Shōjijissōgi and Unjigi) explicates the syllabic letter A as signifying the above-mentioned “primal non-originating” character of all thing-events, as the “mother” of all syllables, letters, and languages, and the king of all mantras. The sound A is also the primal sound made when the mouth first opens to exhale. And in its written form, A constitutes the first stroke of every other syllable. A is the first syllable of the Sanskrit alphabet as well as of the
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