Cosmological Argument
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Quotation
Failure to recognize this leads to confusion about what the cosmological argument is arguing for and failure to understand why it makes no sense to ask for the explanation of the necessary or to claim that a necessary being (e.g., God) is self-explanatory
Location: P1
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