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    The conceptual containment of the predicate in the subjec... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Every truth has a sufficient reason (the Principle of Sufficient Reason).

    The conceptual containment of the predicate in the subject is the sufficient reason for that truth.

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    In other texts, Leibniz argues that the PSR follows from the conceptual containment theory of truth (A VI.iv.1645/L 268). Every truth is such that the concept of the predicate is contained the concept of the subject. This conceptual connection is the sufficient reason for the truth. Thus every truth has a sufficient reason.

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