when i was in school we used to call this anacendent and concequence... something happens and causes something else that causes something else etc...now augustine and later thomas aquinas argued that each event could be traced back to a prime or as aquinas prime mover...this is call cosmologic, and hence everything going back into history past had something to cause it, all the way back, back to that first thing which for lack of better term we call prime or prime mover. now your probably... read more