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    It is not the case that Leibniz's principle of sufficient reason, applied to perfectly rational agents, entails convergence on identical choices rather than divergence, dissolving the reductio.

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    • 1.Perfectly rational agents can assign equal rational weight to genuinely distinct options, making divergence rationally permissible without irrationality.
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    • 2.PSR applies to why-questions about facts; agent choice differences need not require sufficient reasons if choice itself is a primitive phenomenon.
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    • 3.Leibniz's own system permits free will in rational agents precisely because sufficient reasons don't determine unique outcomes in indifferent cases.
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    • 1.Perfectly rational agents process identical information identically, so differing choices require either different information or irrationality.
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    • 2.PSR requires every fact have a sufficient reason; without it, divergent choices among identical agents lack justification.
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    • 3.Convergence on identical choices follows logically from PSR applied uniformly, dissolving the apparent paradox of rational indeterminacy.
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