Spinoza's own necessitarianism avoids this problem precisely because he denies genuine modal parity among series, confirming that PSR requires a differentiating ground to do real explanatory work.
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Chains or sequences of causes and effects that lead to outcomes.
Spinoza
Baruch Spinoza was a 17th-century Dutch philosopher who argued that God and nature are the same thing, and that everything in the universe is interconnected as one unified whole. He believed that understanding how things work through reason and logic—rather than through emotion or superstition—leads to happiness and freedom. His ideas were revolutionary for his time and continue to influence modern philosophy, theology, and how we think about the relationship between mind and body.
necessitarianism(A position Leibniz explicitly rejects in his mature philosophy)
The view that every truth is necessarily true, i.e., demonstrable in a finite number of steps from the containment of predicates in subjects