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To: kosta50
Whatever reason you give me makes the uncaused dependent or caused.

Are you confusing dependent in existence with dependent in the syllogism?

1,206 posted on 02/08/2011 5:45:14 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: D-fendr
Are you confusing dependent in existence with dependent in the syllogism?

Aquinas tied cause with existence by saying that all that exists has a cause other than itself. In that case, if the first cause were to exist, it would also have to have a cause.
1,212 posted on 02/08/2011 12:39:40 PM PST by kosta50 ("Spirit of Spirit....give me over to immortal birth so that I may be born again" -- pagan prayer)
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