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CC014: Exploring the Contingency Argument with Dr. Josh Rasmussen (Part 1)

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Then You Can't Get Independence From Dependent Like This

If we start to add these things up, we don't just magically get something that exists independently. The question is, how is that possible? Right? I mean, like soif if all you have is like this, water, and you're just adding more and more ater, all you're going to have in total is just water. In the same way, if you have dependent stuff and you add more and more dependent stuff, all you'r going to have is dependent stuff. So then the totality would be dependent on something beyond itself. But that leads us to a contradiction. There's nothing beyond the totality. We need something that isn't dependent to prevet the ground

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