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    It is not the case that A proposition p is true if denying p would entail a fact or truth with no sufficient reason.

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    • 1.Kant argued in the Critique of Pure Reason that the PSR is a regulative ideal of reason, not a constitutive truth about reality.
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    • 2.If the PSR governs only how we systematize inquiry rather than how things are, denying p entailing an 'unreasoned fact' shows only an epistemic gap, not p's falsity.
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    • 3.Conflating the demand for explanation with metaphysical necessity commits the rationalist error Kant diagnosed as transcendent illusion.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.The PSR itself lacks a sufficient reason for its own truth, making any inference from it viciously self-undermining (Hume, Enquiry XII).
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    • 2.A principle that cannot satisfy its own demands cannot serve as a foundational criterion for establishing the truth of other propositions.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.If p were false, there would exist some fact or truth for which there is no sufficient reason.
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    • 2.By the PSR, every fact or truth has a sufficient reason.
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    • 3.Therefore p cannot be false.
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