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    It is not the case that Leibniz's distinction between sufficient reason for origination and sufficient reason for continuation implies that a cause sufficient to produce a being need not be sufficient to preserve it.

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    • 1.If a cause is sufficient to produce a being's nature, that same nature's existence-requirements follow necessarily—no metaphysical gap remains.
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    • 2.Distinguishing origination from continuation without explaining WHY the same cause cannot suffice conflates our epistemic limits with real metaphysical boundaries.
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    • 3.In classical metaphysics, God's single creative act suffices both to originate and sustain; positing separate reasons fragments divine causality arbitrarily.
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    • 1.Origination requires overcoming non-existence; continuation requires only preventing relapse into it—these are metaphysically distinct tasks.
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    • 2.Empirically, maintaining a flame requires continuous fuel, but striking a match created it—demonstrating different causal sufficiencies.
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    • 3.A sufficient reason for origination addresses why something begins; a sufficient reason for continuation addresses why it persists—logically separable questions.
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