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Aquinas’s ‘First Way’ Argument: In What Way Does it Prove God’s Existence? | Prof. Gregory Doolan

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The Parasite Causal Series

All of Aquinas' arguments that he offers to prove the existence of God are talking about a parasite causal series. We'll call this an essentially ordered series of causes. This sort of causal series, unlike the last one where we've got a sequence over time, we have a simultaneous series of Causes. The whole causal series takes place at the very moment of causality.

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