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To: kosta50
before I create my side table, it does not exist.

Intermediate cause (you); final cause (table.)

This does not explain the "existence" of the uncaused.

The explanation is that intermediate and final causes cannot go on into infinity and still have you and the table exist.

1,382 posted on 02/12/2011 8:47:55 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: D-fendr; James C. Bennett
The explanation is that intermediate and final causes cannot go on into infinity and still have you and the table exist

Why not? If one can believe in eternity (which is infinity) it seems like the thinker places an arbitrary stop-gap on causation because all of an sudden logic requires it!

1,387 posted on 02/12/2011 11:39:02 AM 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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