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    Leibniz's question 'why is there something rather than no... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Kantian critical rationalism is incomplete and therefore inadequate as a full conception of being.

    Leibniz's question 'why is there something rather than nothing' exposes that formal conditions of experience cannot exhaust the full account of being.

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    • 1.Formal logic and empirical conditions describe *how* things relate, but not *why* anything instantiates rather than remaining merely possible.
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    • 2.The principle of sufficient reason demands explanation at every level; brute facts violate the demand for intelligibility that drives inquiry.
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    • 3.Any system of formal rules requires a domain of objects to apply to; rules themselves cannot explain existence of that domain.
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    • 1.Leibniz's question assumes being requires explanation, but explanations terminate somewhere; demanding explanation of existence itself commits infinite regress.
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    • 2.Formal conditions of experience are not meant to exhaust being—they only describe structures knowable to us; conflating epistemic limits with ontological gaps is unjustified.
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    • 3.The question presupposes 'nothing' as a coherent alternative state, but a world with no logical space for existence cannot coherently be compared to ours.
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