 A similar strategy is applied by Mahrad Almotahari (2022) to the kalām cosmological argument: Everything that begins to exist has a cause for its existence; the universe began to exist; therefore the universe has a cause for its existence. Almotahari argues that acceptance of the first premise of the argument rests on the generic overgeneralization effect. Certainly, anything that we encounter in ordinary life that begins to exist has a cause, and it is entirely reasonable to accept the corresponding generic things that begin to exist have causes for their existence. But the kalām cosmological argument requires a universal generalization, not a generic one, and Almotahari argues that this is a step to which we are not entitled.