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    Challenges→The Principle of the Best is a consequence of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, not a rival to it.

    If a necessitarian PSR fully satisfies the demand for sufficient reasons without invoking 'best,' then the Principle of the Best is a substantive *addition* to PSR, not its logical consequence.

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    Necessitarian(describing a type of approach to the Principle of Sufficient Reason)
    A view that says certain things *must* be true by necessity, rather than being contingent or arbitrary.
    PSR(Leibniz's domain-based characterization of logical principles)
    Principle of Sufficient Reason; governs the domains of metaphysics, natural theology, and physics
    Principle of Sufficient Reason(Leibniz's foundational metaphysical principle underwriting the explicability of all events and phenomena.)
    Nothing takes place without a sufficient reason; 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.
    Principle of the Best(Leibniz's account of sufficient reasons for contingent truths)
    The principle that the sufficient reason for any contingent proposition 'a is F' is that 'a is F' is true in the best possible world.

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    Substantive addition(describing whether the Principle of the Best is truly separate from PSR)
    Something new and meaningful that is added on top of something else, rather than already being included in it.
    logical consequence(WL II, 391–395; noted as similar to Tarski 1956, 419)
    A proposition s is a logical consequence of a set of premises σ if and only if s follows from σ with respect to the sequence of all extra-logical simple ideas contained in σ or s.
    sufficient reasons(Contrasted with decisive reasons in debates about blameworthiness and rational compliance)
    Reasons that support performing an action without being decisive, i.e., without settling the question of what one ought overall to do.

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