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    It is not the case that There must be something whose necessity is uncaused.

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    • 1.An infinite series of contingent beings, each explained by a prior contingent being, constitutes a complete explanatory chain without remainder.
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    • 2.Hume's Enquiry demonstrates that explaining each member of a series individually dissolves any demand for a further explanation of the series as a whole.
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    • 3.Aquinas illicitly treats the collection of contingent beings as itself a further entity requiring explanation beyond its explained members.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Bertrand Russell's position holds that the universe's existence may be a brute fact, and demanding a sufficient reason for all facts generates an explanatory regress that necessity cannot terminate.
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    • 2.The concept of a being that exists necessarily is incoherent if necessity is solely a property of propositions or logical relations, not of concrete existents, as Kant argues in the Critique of Pure Reason.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Necessary beings exist.
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    • 2.If a necessary being has its existence from another necessary being, then we have an unsatisfactory infinite regress of explanations.
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    • 3.A necessary being must have its existence either from itself or from another.
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