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Formulating a New Cosmological Argument

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I explain the distinctions between Leibnizian, Thomist and Kalam Cosmological Arguments, clarify the key terms (time, change, event and cause), and develop a new Cosmological Argument which synthesise the familiar Thomist story about infinite sequences of train cars with the Kalam. This point of originality is combined with other novelties, such as a new ‘infinite additions of zero’ argument and the replacement of the traditional Leibnizian/Thomistic focus on the necessity/pure actuality of the First Cause with a focus on the beginninglessness of the First Cause.

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Loke, A.T.E. (2017). Formulating a New Cosmological Argument. In: God and Ultimate Origins. Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57547-6_3

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