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    It is not the case that There must be an intelligible entity that accounts for the world's order and goodness.

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    • 1.Order can emerge from the interaction of unintelligent material principles without any prior intelligible cause, as Democritus and Epicurus demonstrated.
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    • 2.The regularity we observe in the cosmos is fully explicable by necessary relations among material constituents, making appeal to an intelligible archetype explanatorily redundant.
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    • 3.Positing an intelligible entity as cause of order generates an infinite regress, since that entity's own ordered nature requires a further explanation.
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    • 1.Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion establish that inferring a designing intelligence from observed order illicitly anthropomorphizes cosmological explanation.
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    • 2.The conflation of order with goodness presupposes a normative teleology that empirical inquiry cannot vindicate, as Kant argued in the Critique of Judgment's antinomy of teleological judgment.
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    • 1.Only intelligible entities can account for order, and order amounts to goodness.
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    • 2.A Platonic Form accounts for the ordered existence of physical things.
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    • 3.A soul accounts for the ordered existence of living things.
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