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    It is not the case that Everything that happens has a sufficient reason in an antecedent state of the world.

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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