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Ontology is the study of the nature of being, existence or reality as such, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations.

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Is there a logical reason to default to a certain type of first cause?

While there are some exceptions, physics generally holds that the universe has a beginning. Assuming that there is a first cause of the universe, what are the logical based reasons for preferring eith …