FIRST-CAUSE ARGUMENT


Meaning of FIRST-CAUSE ARGUMENT in English

/ferrst"kawz"/ , Philos.

an argument for the existence of God, asserting the necessity of an uncaused cause of all subsequent series of causes, on the assumption that an infinite regress is impossible. Cf. cosmological argument .

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .