Bradley's view is that every study, whether it is of morality or the natural world or religion or whatever, begins from some working hypotheses.
In his Treatise of Human Nature (I, 3,3) Hume considers several arguments which attempt to prove the "general maxim in philosophy, that whatever begins to exist, must have a cause" and finds all of them wanting.
Reid's cosmological argument stems from Samuel Clarke's and features a priori justification of the principle, "That whatever begins to exist, must have a cause which produced it" (EIP 6.6, 497).
Beck also places particular emphasis on the fact that Hume discusses the first principle solely in the Treatise, Book 1, part 3, section 3 as the "general maxim in philosophy, that whatever begins to exist, must have a cause of existence" (T 1.3.3.1; SBN 78).
That's when the real fun (sexist fun, as some have called it, but whatever) begins.
At the sound of the gun, or whatever begins the race, stride to the general front area.
Whatever, money began pouring in.
"You're invited to say I'm crazy or whatever," he began, doodling absently in the pad.
And this leaves you free to bask, guilt-free, in sheer decorative amazingness, which is surely where kazari, whatever is, begins and ends.
