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    It is not the case that The idea that God could place objects within absolute space with one orientation rather than another is not incoherent, but God would lack a reason for doing so.

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    • 1.God's perfect goodness constitutes a sufficient reason for any act that realizes a distinct, coherent state of affairs, regardless of symmetry.
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    • 2.Clarke argued against Leibniz that God's will itself can be a sufficient reason, even absent external differentiating conditions.
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    • 3.If God's volition is a perfection, then the act of placing objects in one orientation rather than another expresses that perfection sufficiently.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Buridan's ass cases show that rational agents can act without differentiating reasons when alternatives are strictly equivalent, without irrationality.
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    • 2.Leibniz's Principle of Sufficient Reason, which underwrites the 'no reason' objection, is itself contested as an a priori necessity rather than a logical truth.
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    • 3.If PSR is not a necessary truth, the inference from 'God lacks a differentiating reason' to 'God cannot act' does not follow.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.The conceivability of God choosing an orientation within absolute space does not entail that such a choice has a sufficient reason.
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    • 2.Absence of sufficient reason is distinct from incoherence.
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