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    It is not the case that The cosmos exhibits both horizontal and vertical interdependency such that no part can be fully separated from 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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    • 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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