Definition of "cosmological argument" []

• A type of argument for the existence of God, advanced by a number of philosophers, including Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, which maintains that, since every thing and event has a cause, there must be a first cause (God) which is itself uncaused and which causes everything else. (noun)

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• "The cosmological argument carries the principle of causality beyond the world of sense-experience, where alone it is valid."