In reference to the problem of an infinite series of caused causes: “It is just difficult for any supporting member to exist as the member it supports. This brings back the question of how any member can do any causing unless it first exists. B cannot cause A until D brings it into existence. What is true of Di is equally true of E and F without end. Since each condition for the existence of A requires the fulfilment of a prior condition, it follows that none of them can ever be fulfilled. In each case what is offered as part of the solution turns out instead to be part of the problem.” [James Sadowsky, ‘The Cosmological Argument and the Endless Regress’, International Philosophical Quarterly 20 (1980), pp. 465f.; quoted in Brian Davies, Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion, pg.65].
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