"The" Meta Argument for God - Some Personal Thoughts
Introduction
After having reviewed so many of the arguments for God's existence, they all seem to boil down to a very specific structure.
This argument summarizes the discovery of intelligibility and the beginning of philosophy and science - rational thought - with the pre-Socratics. For the mind to be rational it must be based on rational world.
A Very Rough Version
Minor Term - led to an absolute limit
Middle Term - Being subject to causal reasoning
Major Premise
[All aspects of existence/all existing things] ARE [subject to causal reasoning/Principle of Sufficient Reasoning/a causal understanding/a causal system/the PNC/Intelligibility]
[All aspects of existence/all existing things] ARE [subject to causal reasoning/Principle of Sufficient Reasoning/a causal understanding/a causal system/the PNC/Intelligibility]
Minor Premise
[Being subject to causal reasoning] IS [that which always leads to an absolute limit of that line of reasoning.]
Conclusion
Therefore [all existing things] ARE [always led to an absolute limit (the One).]
Therefore [all existing things] ARE [always led to an absolute limit (the One).]
A More Polished Version
All {existing things} are {tw follows the Principle of Sufficient Reason}.
All {tw follows the Principle of Sufficient Reason} is {tw leads to an absolute limit case}.
Therefore:
All {existing things} are {tw leads to an absolute limit case}.
Explained in Prose
In other words, it is a universal truth that everything we experience as existing has a causal explanation for every aspect of its existence. For example, the whole scientific endeavor only works because it asks questions on the assumption that there are real causal answers to be found.
If there is a causal chain of explanations for every aspect of every existing thing then there will always be a causal limit case which explains everything that leads to the limit case in whatever aspect of existence one is examining, or even just being as being. In other words, if one is examining why fire burns wood, one will be led to causal principles which encapsulate the adequate explanation for this question. These causal principles will then lead to other questions, such as the composition of wood or the composition of fire and why they are the way they are. These too will rise to higher explanations and so on. All of these will eventually unify to seek an adequate causal explanation for being qua being, or why anything exists at all.
Therefore, being must be led to an ultimate limit cause which is completely causal explanatory and self- existent. This is what we give the name God.

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