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    The Leibnizian demand for 'true unity' as a grounding con... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Atoms cannot serve as the ultimate constituents that ground the reality of bodies.

    The Leibnizian demand for 'true unity' as a grounding condition smuggles in a rationalist metaphysical standard that empiricist ontologies are not obligated to satisfy.

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    • 1.Empiricism prioritizes observable phenomena and causal regularities, not metaphysical substrates underlying appearances.
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    • 2.Leibniz's 'true unity' requirement assumes substances need intrinsic, non-relational identity—an assumption empiricists can reject.
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    • 3.Imposing rationalist standards on empiricist frameworks creates unfair burden; each approach should be evaluated by its own criteria.
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    • 1.The claim conflates 'demanding' a standard with 'presupposing' one; Leibniz may be identifying what any coherent ontology requires.
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    • 2.Empiricism itself smuggles assumptions (sense data, causal sufficiency) that equally demand metaphysical justification.
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    • 3.Without some unity criterion, empiricist bundles of impressions become arbitrary collections, undermining explanatory power.
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