PHL105Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Presupposition
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There must be an explanation (a) of the existence of any being and (b) of any positive fact whatever. Psr, version 1:!there is an explanation for every positive fact. Psr, version 2:!whatever exists must have an explanation of its existence!either in the necessity of its own nature or in the causal efficacy of some other being. Psr, version 3:!whatever comes into existence must have an explanation of its existence in the causal efficacy of some other being. Nothing can be more absurd, than to suppose that anything (or any circumstance of thing) is; and yet that there be absolutely no reason why it is, rather than not. "tis easy to conceive, that we may be utterly ignorant of the reasons, or grounds, or causes of many things.
