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    Every truth has a sufficient reason (the Principle of Sufficient Reason).

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    • 1.Every truth is such that the concept of the predicate is contained in the concept of the subject.
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    • 2.The conceptual containment of the predicate in the subject is the sufficient reason for that truth.
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    • 1.Quantum mechanics demonstrates that radioactive decay events have no sufficient reason determining their precise timing.
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    • 2.If a well-confirmed physical theory posits genuinely indeterministic events, then PSR cannot hold as a universal metaphysical truth.
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    • 3.The truth 'this atom decayed at t' is therefore a counterexample to PSR, not a truth awaiting a deeper explanation.
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    • 1.Leibniz's conceptual containment account entails that all truths are analytic, collapsing the distinction between necessary and contingent truths.
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    • 2.If PSR requires that contingent truths have sufficient reasons grounded in concepts, then PSR destroys the very contingency it purports to explain.
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    • 3.Kant's synthetic a posteriori judgments establish that some truths are irreducibly non-analytic, making conceptual containment an inadequate universal ground.
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    In other texts, Leibniz argues that the PSR follows from the conceptual containment theory of truth (A VI.iv.1645/L 268). Every truth is such that the concept of the predicate is contained the concept of the subject. This conceptual connection is the sufficient reason for the truth. Thus every truth has a sufficient reason.
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