Take the principle that an infinite regress of causes is impossible. It's an instance of a class of principles P
t := 'An infinite regress of
t-causes is impossible' where
t stands for simpliciter, efficient, sustaining, composite and so on. For each
t we can ask whether P
t holds. If P
t holds for some
t, and if
t is not equal to 'simpliciter', then all
t-causal series are finite and have a first member. But this first member might not be uncaused. For it might have an
s-cause where
s is not equal to
t.
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