A Defense of the Crucial Premise of the Third Way

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Aquinas' Third Way is often dismissed as a howler, because he infers from the fact that, since the universe is metaphysically contingent that there was some time in the past when it didn't exist. I offer an argument to justify this inference.

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Steven Merle Duncan
Bellevue Community College

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