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    It is not the case that Swinburne's inference therefore relocates rather than resolves the explanatory demand, violating Leibniz's own cosmological standard.

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    • 1.Swinburne's theism satisfies PSR: God's necessity provides genuine explanatory stopping-point.
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    • 2.Relocation is not violation—distinguishing contingent from necessary beings is explanatorily legitimate.
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    • 3.Demanding explanation of necessary beings confuses logical necessity with causal demand.
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    • 1.Leibniz's PSR demands explanation of why anything exists at all, not just contingent things.
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    • 2.Positing God as a necessary being merely replaces one unexplained explanandum with another.
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    • 3.True explanatory closure requires explaining the ultimate principle itself, not exempting it.
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