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It was argued in Chapter 2 that world-contingency questions are, for all that there was offered to the contrary, legitimate questions requesting an explanation of the cosmos in terms of something other than the cosmos or a part of the cosmos, that is to say, requesting what may be called a ‘non-natural’ explanation of the cosmos.
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Shepherd, J.J. (1975). A ‘Soft’ Cosmological Approach. In: Experience, Inference and God. Library of Philosophy and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02436-0_4
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