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    The principle of sufficient reason fragments the world in... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The cognitive fragmentation required for scientific knowledge generates the illusion that a wrongdoer and the person wronged are essentially separate and private individuals.

    The principle of sufficient reason fragments the world into independent individuals in order to apply causal reasoning.

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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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