III. To the Argument for the Opposite when Holding to the Affirmative Side of the Question

152. If the other side is held, one can say to the argument for the opposite [n.136] that there is not so precisely a proportion there that a created supposit cannot terminate the dependence of another nature; however a nature cannot depend at the same time on several terminating supposits, because as a universal rule, in the case of dependences of cause and caused, although one cause can terminate the dependence of several caused things, yet several causes in the same genus and order of cause cannot terminate the dependence of one caused thing, because a plurality of the prior argues a plurality of the posterior, but not conversely.