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    It is not the case that The Principle of the Best is a consequence of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, not a rival to it.

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    • 1.The PSR requires only that every fact have *some* explanation, not that explanations must terminate in a best-choice calculation.
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    • 2.Leibniz's own modal framework allows that God could have sufficient reason to create even without a unique best world, as Rescher's 'optimific' reading shows.
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    • 3.If PSR entails the Principle of the Best, then in worlds without a unique optimum, PSR itself becomes vacuously unsatisfiable, making it a rival constraint rather than a consequence.
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    • 1.Spinoza argued that God acts from the necessity of divine nature alone, providing sufficient reasons without any teleological ranking of possible worlds.
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    • 2.If a necessitarian PSR fully satisfies the demand for sufficient reasons without invoking 'best,' then the Principle of the Best is a substantive *addition* to PSR, not its logical consequence.
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    • 1.The sufficient reason for every choice is that the chooser perceives the choice to be best.
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    • 2.God chooses the actual world.
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    • 3.God perceives something to be what is best just in case it is the best.
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