books – The Analytic Thomist

The Anti-Regress Argument for a First Cause

This is the first of two new arguments for a first cause. Check out an earlier post that contains the relevant definitions. Causation is a strict partial order (transitive and asymmetric). The Universe exists (i.e., there are some broadly causable things). Every member of the Universe (the class of broadly causable things) has a causeContinue reading “The Anti-Regress Argument for a First Cause”