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    Van Inwagen's consequence argument establishes that if th... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→There is an absolute explanation for the pluriverse.

    Van Inwagen's consequence argument establishes that if the pluriverse necessarily exists, its existence is brute and admits of no further explanation.

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    • 1.Van Inwagen's consequence argument shows that if determinism is false, free will requires that some facts lack prior determining causes.
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    • 2.Necessary existence entails that nothing external could have caused or explained the pluriverse's existence.
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    • 3.If a fact admits no further explanation, it is brute; necessary existence precludes explanatory regress.
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    • 1.Necessity itself may constitute an explanation: why it exists needs no answer if non-existence is metaphysically impossible.
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    • 2.Van Inwagen's argument targets agent causation and control, not modal facts; necessary truths differ categorically.
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    • 3.Brute facts and necessary facts are distinct categories; necessity may ground explanation even without external cause.
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