... cause .An infinite series of contingent being will be, to my way of thinking as unable to cause as one contingent being"(2) Bertrand Russell retorts that the demand to find the first cause of a series rests on the false assumption that the series is something over and above ... existence as an attribute or characteristic. Yet philosophers like Farther Coplesten refute Kantian criticism and assert that existence is a characteristic. Yet it is Bertrand Russell's critique of the argument that does it the most damage. He believes that the contingency argument rest on a misconception of what ...

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... series has not a phenomenal cause, but a transcendent cause .An infinite series of contingent being will be, to my way of thinking as unable to cause as one contingent being"(2) Bertrand Russell retorts that the demand to find the first cause of a series rests on the false assumption that the series is something over and above the members of which it is ... same error as the Ontological, regarding existence as an attribute or characteristic. Yet philosophers like Farther Coplesten refute Kantian criticism and assert that existence is a characteristic. Yet it is Bertrand Russell's critiq...

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... , God must exist. A second reading suggested that there had to have been something to cause the universe to exist. In what is called the "First Cause Argument," Bertrand Russell assumes that every event must have a cause, and that cause in turn must have a cause, and on and on and on. Assuming there is no end to this regression of ... ...

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