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    The PSR, applied universally, demands a sufficient reason... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→God must exist

    The PSR, applied universally, demands a sufficient reason for God's own existence, generating an infinite regress or an arbitrary stopping point.

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    • 1.If PSR is true universally, it applies to all existing things without exception, including God.
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    • 2.Either God has a sufficient reason for existence (external cause) or God is self-caused or brute fact.
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    • 3.All three options (external cause, self-causation, brute fact) violate PSR's demands or generate logical problems.
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    • 1.PSR may be epistemically justified for contingent beings without applying to necessary beings like God.
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    • 2.A necessary being requires no external sufficient reason because its existence is metaphysically self-explanatory.
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    • 3.The argument equivocates between 'explaining existence' and 'causal explanation,' conflating distinct concepts.
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