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#57 Everything that Begins to Exist Has a Cause? - Dan Linford
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Dan Linford and I discuss the causal principle, that everything that begins to exist has a cause. We look at William Lane Craig's oft-repeated three reasons for affirming the premise: something cannot come from nothing, if something could come from nothing, then anything and everything should come from nothing, and an inductive generalization supports the causal principle.
Check out Linford's paper discussing neo-Russellian analyses of causation.
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:58 Different types of "causes"
00:05:49 Premise (1) of the KCA
00:10:19 First argument for CP: An inductive generalization
00:23:56 Metaphysics should be continuous with physics
00:34:27 Is science our only source of knowledge?
00:38:32 Second argument for CP: Something cannot come from nothing
00:42:16 Is neo-Russellianism just too counter-intuitive?
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