The principle of sufficient reason thus fails to preclude identical individuals when individuation is grounded in absolute spatiotemporal position rather than intrinsic properties.

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Absolute spatiotemporal position(as used in metaphysics and physics): A thing's fixed location in space and time considered on its own terms—where and when something exists as its defining feature.
Identical individuals(as used in logic and metaphysics): Two or more things that are completely the same in every way—no differences in their properties, qualities, or characteristics.
Principle of Sufficient Reason(Leibniz's foundational metaphysical principle underwriting the explicability of all events and phenomena.): Nothing takes place without a sufficient reason; nothing occurs for which it would be impossible for someone who has enough knowledge of things to give a reason adequate to determine why the thing is as it is and not otherwise.
individuation(Scholastic debate over the principle of individuation): The metaphysical explanation of what makes a particular thing a distinct individual rather than a universal or shared nature
intrinsic properties(Contrasted with structural properties revealed by physics): Properties which supposedly underlie and account for the structural properties of things.

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