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    The principle of sufficient reason fragments the world in... — Carmelics
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    The principle of sufficient reason fragments the world into a set of individuals dispersed through space and time.

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    • 1.Applying the relationship of causality requires conceiving of cause A and effect B as two independent objects.
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    • 2.The principle of sufficient reason is the rationalistic basis for applying causal relationships in the acquisition of scientific knowledge.
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    • 1.Kant argued that the principle of sufficient reason (via the analogies of experience) constitutes unified experience, not fragmentary individuals.
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    • 2.For Kant, causality is a category that synthesizes appearances into a single, law-governed nature rather than dispersing them into isolated objects.
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    • 3.If the principle unifies rather than fragments, the claim misattributes to the principle what belongs instead to the forms of intuition (space and time).
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    • 1.Leibniz, who systematized the principle of sufficient reason, held that it entails the identity of indiscernibles, which reduces apparent multiplicity to rational unity.
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    • 2.On Leibniz's own account, sufficient reason connects every individual to the whole rational order of the universe through pre-established harmony.
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    • 3.A principle that logically binds every contingent fact to a complete rational ground cannot coherently be said to merely disperse or fragment the world.
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    Not only, then, does the specific application of the principle of sufficient reason fragment the world into a set of individuals dispersed through space and time for the purposes of attaining scientific knowledge, this rationalistic principle generates the illusion that when one person does wrong to another, that these two people are essentially separate and private individuals. Just as the fragmentation of the world into individuals is necessary to apply the relationship of causality, where A c
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