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    Therefore, demanding a cause for all existence smuggles a... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Whatever exists must have a cause or ground for its existence

    Therefore, demanding a cause for all existence smuggles an empirically-derived concept into a domain where empirical validation is impossible.

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    • 1.Causality is observed only within spacetime; applying it to existence itself assumes conditions that don't obtain at metaphysical boundaries.
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    • 2.Empirical concepts like causation gain meaning through repeated observation and falsifiability, impossible for unique events like universal origin.
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    • 3.Demanding a cause for all existence creates infinite regress unless an exception is granted, making the rule self-undermining.
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    • 1.Logic and conceptual analysis can constrain metaphysical claims without empirical validation; mathematical truths don't require laboratory testing.
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    • 2.If causation is merely empirical convention, denying causality to existence becomes unjustified assertion rather than principled reasoning.
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    • 3.The claim itself uses non-empirical philosophical reasoning to dismiss the causal principle, undermining its epistemological foundation.
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