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    It is not the case that God has established that each finite substance truly represents all other substances, despite substances existing independently of one another.

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    • 1.If substances are genuinely independent, no external coordination—even divine—can constitute their intrinsic representational content without violating that independence.
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    • 2.Pre-established harmony smuggles in a covert relational dependence on God that undermines the very definition of substance Leibniz requires.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Spinoza demonstrated that truly independent substances cannot be plural—genuine independence entails there is only one substance, not many representing each other.
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    • 2.Leibniz's appeal to divine goodness as the ground of harmony is an ad hoc theological postulate that does no explanatory work beyond restating the explanandum.
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    • 1.Finite substances are defined as existing independently of one another.
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    • 2.It does not seem necessary from the concept of substance alone that every substance truly represents all others.
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    • 3.God prefers a maximally harmonious world.
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