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02-17-2005 1:37 PM 		Reply to: Message 113 by crashfrog
02-17-2005 11:06 AM

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What makes you think that a law that operates within the universe applies to the universe?
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To assume that the whole must share the characteristics of its constituent parts is a fallacy, but I can't remember the name of. I don't think it's quite the same as "Hasty Generalization".
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This is also the fatal weakness of the Argument of Contingency: just because everything in the universe has a cause (which may not even be true) it doesn't follow that the universe as a whole must have a cause.
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