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Moreland argued that, if the world had a beginning in time, then there was a cause for the world's beginning. Mackie objected to this that
{ 1 } - maybe causality can work in the reverse direction (so maybe some later event in the world's history caused the world to begin).
{ 2 } - maybe the world just started up without any cause at all.
{ 3 } - causality is only a category that the mind uses to put together the raw data of sensation.
{ 4 } - He raised all of these objections.
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Moreland argued that, if the world had a beginning in time, then there was a cause for the world's beginning. Mackie objected to this that
{ 1 } - maybe causality can work in the reverse direction (so maybe some later event in the world's history caused the world to begin).
{ 2 } - maybe the world just started up without any cause at all.
{ 3 } - causality is only a category that the mind uses to put together the raw data of sensation.
{ 4 } - He raised all of these objections.
He didn't raise this objection.
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Moreland argued that, if the world had a beginning in time, then there was a cause for the world's beginning. Mackie objected to this that
{ 1 } - maybe causality can work in the reverse direction (so maybe some later event in the world's history caused the world to begin).
{ 2 } - maybe the world just started up without any cause at all.
{ 3 } - causality is only a category that the mind uses to put together the raw data of sensation.
{ 4 } - He raised all of these objections.
Mackie admitted that the idea of a world just popping into existence without a cause seems absurd to many people. But we can't show that this idea leads to any self-contradiction. So we can't strictly prove that it's impossible for the world to start with no cause.
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Moreland argued that, if the world had a beginning in time, then there was a cause for the world's beginning. Mackie objected to this that
{ 1 } - maybe causality can work in the reverse direction (so maybe some later event in the world's history caused the world to begin).
{ 2 } - maybe the world just started up without any cause at all.
{ 3 } - causality is only a category that the mind uses to put together the raw data of sensation.
{ 4 } - He raised all of these objections.
He didn't raise this objection.
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Moreland argued that, if the world had a beginning in time, then there was a cause for the world's beginning. Mackie objected to this that
{ 1 } - maybe causality can work in the reverse direction (so maybe some later event in the world's history caused the world to begin).
{ 2 } - maybe the world just started up without any cause at all.
{ 3 } - causality is only a category that the mind uses to put together the raw data of sensation.
{ 4 } - He raised all of these objections.
No, he raised just one of them.
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