From: me22over7@gmail.com   
      
   On 18/02/2026 1:14 am, John Harshman wrote:   
   > On 2/17/26 4:39 AM, Ernest Major wrote:   
   >> On 17/02/2026 04:08, John Harshman wrote:   
   >>> "aseity"?   
   >>   
   >> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aseity   
   >>   
   > Ah, the get out of infinite regress free card. The bottom turtle.   
   >   
      
   Are you suggesting that any hypothesis that terminates the causal chain   
   is invalid in principle? The alternative of an infinite regress is   
   effectively no explanation.   
      
   This is a common category error. Causal explanations are restricted to   
   the domain of methodological naturalism, i.e. they describe mechanisms   
   within the universe. A First Cause explains why the universe exists   
   (e.g. why there something rather than nothing, and why physical laws exist).   
      
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