Philosophy A-Level
Atemporal causation
What Atemporal causation means in Philosophy A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Atemporal causation
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The starting point of the Second Way: every effect has a cause, and causes cannot form an endless series of essentially ordered causes.
Topics that use Atemporal causation
- Arguments relating to the existence of God (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Actual versus potential infinity
- Agency and causation as the distinguishing criterion
- Analogical and inductive reasoning
- Anselm's argument and its revival by Malcolm
- Argument from analogy
- Cleanthes's design inference
- Conceivability and possibility
- Cosmological argument
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