first-cause argument

US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(fûrst′kôz′)


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first′-cause′ ar′gument  (fûrst′kôz′),USA pronunciation [Philos.]
  1. Philosophyan argument for the existence of God, asserting the necessity of an uncaused cause of all subsequent series of causes, on the assumption that an infinite regress is impossible. Cf. cosmological argument.

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cosmological argument

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