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    The cosmos exhibits both horizontal and vertical interdependency such that no part can be fully separated from the whole.

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    • 1.The cosmos is a web of interdependently originating thing-events.
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    • 2.The whole is what it is in virtue of its parts.
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    • 3.The parts are what they are in partaking of the whole.
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    • 1.Leibniz's monadology demonstrates that metaphysically simple, windowless substances can constitute a cosmos without genuine ontological interdependency.
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    • 2.If monads have no causal windows yet produce a coherent world via pre-established harmony, separability of parts from wholes is metaphysically coherent.
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    • 3.Therefore, cosmic order does not entail that parts are constitutively dependent on wholes—coordination can substitute for interdependency.
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    • 1.David Lewis's Humean supervenience holds that the world is a mosaic of local, intrinsic qualities with no necessary connections between distinct existences.
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    • 2.If causal and modal relations supervene on non-relational categorical properties, then relational interdependency is explanatorily derivative, not fundamental.
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    • 3.A part's intrinsic nature being logically prior to its relational embedment is inconsistent with the claim that no part can be fully separated from the whole.
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    The realization of enlightenment cannot be attained on one’s own. For one is not a substantial, i.e., ontologically independent, being to begin with. As the cosmos itself is a web of interdependently originating thing-events, nothing can stand alone to claim complete self-sufficiency. The same interdependency that obtains horizontally between the constituents of the cosmos also obtains vertically. That is, the whole is what it is in virtue of its parts just as the parts are what they are in part
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