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    It is not the case that Every truth has a sufficient reason (the Principle of Sufficient Reason).

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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