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    Everything that happens has a sufficient reason in an ant... — Carmelics
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    Everything that happens has a sufficient reason in an antecedent state of the world.

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    • 1.Every phenomenon can be explained.
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    • 2.Nothing occurs for which it would be impossible for someone with enough knowledge to give a reason adequate to determine why the thing is as it is and not otherwise.
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    • 3.Not everything possible happens, so not everything that happens is necessary — yet each event is still grounded in a prior state.
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    • 1.Quantum mechanics demonstrates that radioactive decay events have no antecedent sufficient cause, only irreducible probabilities.
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    • 2.If physical indeterminism is coherent and empirically well-supported, the PSR cannot hold as a universal metaphysical necessity.
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    • 3.A principle falsified by the best available scientific account of nature cannot function as an a priori rational foundation.
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    • 1.Hume showed that causal necessity is not found in events themselves but projected by the mind from observed regularities.
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    • 2.If 'sufficient reason' requires more than constant conjunction — namely necessary connection — then no such grounding is ever actually observed.
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    • 3.A principle requiring hidden necessitating grounds beyond all possible experience violates the empiricist constraint that meaningful claims must be anchored in impressions.
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    Leibniz believed that every phenomenon could be explained. His Principle of Sufficient Reason states that “nothing takes place without a sufficient reason; in other words,…nothing occurs for which it would be impossible for someone who has enough knowledge of things to give a reason adequate to determine why the thing is as it is and not otherwise.” Though not everything possible happens (and, therefore not everything that happens is necessary), everything that happens has a sufficient reason in
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