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    It is not the case that When we see a house, we can reasonably conclude it had an architect or builder

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    • 1.Causal inference from observed effects to unobserved causes requires that we have experienced the cause-effect pairing directly, not inferred it.
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    • 2.In the case of the cosmos, we have never observed a universe being created, so the analogy to house-building lacks the required experiential basis.
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    • 3.Without repeated observations of cosmos-creation events, Hume's own regularity theory of causation disallows projecting the builder inference onto cosmological scale.
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    • 1.The house-architect inference succeeds only because houses are a proper subset of a class of objects for which we have exhaustive causal knowledge.
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    • 2.Extending this inference to unique or singular objects — like the universe itself — commits the fallacy of composition by treating part-whole relationships as symmetrical.
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    • 3.Kant argued in the Critique of Pure Reason that applying categories like causation beyond possible experience generates unavoidable antinomies, not knowledge.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Houses are a species of effect we have repeatedly experienced
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    • 2.Architects and builders are the species of cause we have experienced to produce houses
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    • 3.Constant conjunction between this type of effect and this type of cause licenses reliable inference
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