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T/F aquinas thinks that an infinite series of causes is repugnant to reason.

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Aquinas argues that an infinite regress of causes is repugnant to reason in his "Five Ways" (also known as the "Five Proofs") for the existence of God. He believed that there must be a first cause, which he identified with God, in order to explain the existence of the universe. Aquinas argued that an infinite regress of causes would mean that there is no first cause, and therefore no explanation for the existence of the universe, which he believed was absurd.

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