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    The Principle of Sufficient Reason governs the domain of contingent truths

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    • 1.Leibniz associates each of his two fundamental principles with distinct modal domains
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    • 2.The domain of contingent truths is characterized modally as the domain where the Principle of Sufficient Reason is the governing principle
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    • 1.Spinoza's monist necessitarianism holds that all truths, including apparently contingent ones, follow necessarily from God/Nature's essence.
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    • 2.If all truths are ultimately necessary, the PSR cannot be domain-restricted to contingency without collapsing the contingent/necessary distinction.
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    • 3.Leibniz's own modal bifurcation presupposes a robust contingency that Spinozistic rationalism systematically undermines from within the rationalist tradition.
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    • 1.Schopenhauer argues in 'On the Fourfold Root' that sufficient reason governs necessary structural relations (e.g., mathematical and logical), not merely contingent ones.
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    • 2.If PSR applies to necessary truths via the principle of knowing (principium rationis cognoscendi), then restricting PSR to contingency misrepresents its actual scope.
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    Leibniz associates the Principle of Contradiction and the PSR with a variety of domains where each is especially important. For example, there are domains where the truths of the domain depend on one of the two principles. These domains are characterized modally: The Principle of Contradiction rules over the domain of necessary truths and the PSR rules over the domain of contingent truths (A 6 4 1616/MP 75; G VII 355–56/LC 15–16).
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