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    There must be a first cause of being. — Carmelics
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    There must be a first cause of being.

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    • 1.There must be a first cause of oneness.
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    • 2.Bringing something to be means imposing unity of a certain kind.
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    • 1.An infinite regress of causes is not logically contradictory, as Hume argued—necessity is a psychological habit, not a metaphysical fact.
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    • 2.If every event requires a prior cause, positing an uncaused first cause violates the very causal principle invoked to reach it.
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    • 1.Buddhists like Nagarjuna demonstrate that dependent origination—causation without a first cause—is metaphysically coherent and empirically adequate.
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    • 2.Unity imposed on being presupposes a prior ontological framework, making the 'first cause of oneness' regress-prone rather than foundational.
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    The first being is the first cause of existence to all other beings.86%Anything that is 'first' cannot have any kind of cause86%If X is prior in being to everything other than itself, then X is the ...85%There must be a first cause of oneness.85%

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    The central concept in the theology of On First Philosophy, however, is neither truth nor being, but oneness. Indeed al-Kindi argues for a first cause of being precisely by arguing for a first cause of oneness, and asserting that “bringing something to be” means imposing unity of a certain kind. Al-Kindi’s philosophical theology thus has two main aspects: a proof that there must be some “true One” that is the cause of the unity in all things, and a discussion of the nature of this true One. Thes
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