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God, Creation, and the Act of Existence | Prof. Gaven Kerr

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Perse Orders Do Not Have a Cause for Their Causality

The hand-stick in stone, they're immobile without a cause for their causality. The fire doesn't possess its heat from another source. So the mental agent just is able to get up and go and originate motion given what it is. That's just a feature of agency. All right. Now what all this tells us is that if perse ordered series do not have a cause fortheir causality, then there's no such series in question. Okay.

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