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Principle of Sufficient Reason

Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, 2020
A discussion of three central questions: (i) to what extent is the contemporary notion of metaphysical explanation continuous with the notion of sufficient reason endorsed by Spinoza, Leibniz, and other rationalists? (ii) to what extent can the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) avoid the formidable traditional objections levelled against it if it is
Fatema Amijee
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The Principle of Sufficient Reason

1971
The basic philosophical difficulty people feel in believing in freewill lies in the fact that this doctrine seems to violate the principle of sufficient reason. Now the principle of sufficient reason is simply the doctrine that behind every event whatever there is a “sufficient,” i.e., entirely adequate, reason for its happening rather than something ...
W. Davis
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Theoretical Reason’s Supreme Principle and the Principle of Sufficient Reason

2023
Abstract This chapter turns to the characterizations that Kant provides of reason’s governing principle, focusing first on his discussion of this in the theoretical domain. In doing so, it argues that reason’s most fundamental principle can be thought of as a version of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR), albeit one that is ...
Karl Schafer
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Reflections on the principle of sufficient reason

The Southern Journal of Philosophy
Abstract This essay is a discussion of the Principle of Sufficient Reason in the context of fundamental principles of philosophy. The paper discusses what the Principle is, Leibniz's argument for it, a contemporary argument for it, given by Michael Della Rocca, and an argument drawn from Buddhist philosophy by Allison Aitken.
Graham Priest
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The Principle of Sufficient Reason: a Moral Argument

Religious Studies, 1996
The Clarke/Rowe version of the Cosmological Argument is sound only if the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) is true, but many philosophers, including Rowe, think that there is not adequate evidence for the principle of sufficient reason. I argue that there may be indirect evidence for PSR on the grounds that if we do not accept it, we lose our best ...
M. Nelson
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On the Principle of Sufficient Reason

Polish Journal of Philosophy, 2007
Jacek Wojtysiak
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The Modal Status of Leibniz's Principle of Sufficient Reason

Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 2020
Leibniz's principle of sufficient reason (PSR) is the claim that everything has a sufficient reason. But is Leibniz committed to the necessity or to the contingency of his great principle?
Owen Pikkert
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Identification of external harmonic force parameters

Proceedings of the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics NAS of Ukraine, 2023
The problem of determining the external force, which is given by the harmonic function of time and acts on a self-oscillating system of general type (Lienard oscillator) is considered.
V. Shcherbak, N. Zhogoleva
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Principle of Sufficient Reason

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The principle of sufficient reason

Proceedings of the conference on Programming languages and compilers for parallel and vector machines -, 1975
To a large extent, the design of languages for parallel processing machines seems to be a problem merely because of the historical precedence of von Neumann machines. We have grown up professionally in a serial computing environment, so that many of the habits we have acquired are related to that seriality and yet are so deeply ingrained thay we do not
Dennis P. Geller, Gerald M. Weinberg
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