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Nāgārjuna and Vasubandhu on the principle of sufficient reason

Asian Journal of Philosophy
Allison Aitken
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The Contingency of the Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles in Leibniz

Journal of the history of philosophy
:Leibniz holds that there are no two perfectly similar things, a doctrine he calls the Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles (the PII). What is his attitude toward its modal status?
Martin Lin
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A DEFENSE OF A PRINCIPLE OF SUFFICIENT REASON

Metaphilosophy, 1995
L'A. presente un argument de defense du principe de raison suffisante qui prend en compte les diverses critiques auxquelles ce principe a deja ete ...
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Is the cosmological argument intuitive?

Religious Studies: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion
The cosmological argument for the existence of God seems to have significant intuitive resonance. According to a familiar version of the cosmological argument, there must be some explanation for why the universe exists, and God provides the explanation ...
Shaun Nichols, Justin Steinberg
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The Leibnizian foundations of the eighteenth‐century debate on the justification of principles: The problem of the meaning of metaphysics

The Southern Journal of Philosophy
The reception of Leibniz encompasses a wide range of authors influenced by his work, such as Wolff, Crusius, and Kant. In this article, I will address the problem of the reception of Leibniz's theory of principles in the context of the debate that arose ...
José Antonio Gutiérrez‐García
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Leibniz on the Grounds of the Principle of Sufficient Reason

Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 2022
Abstract I examine several alleged grounds of the principle of sufficient reason in Leibniz’s philosophy. These include the nature of a requisite and a sufficient condition, the nature of truth, and the nature of harmony. I argue that Leibniz does not ground the PSR in any of these ways.
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The Kant-Eberhard Polemic: The Deduction of the Principle of Sufficient Reason from the Principle of Non-Contradiction

The Court of Reason, 2021
Esma Kayar
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Principle of Sufficient Reason

The Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion, 2021
D. Oderberg
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Leibniz’s Principle of Sufficient Reason

2003
Abstract According to Pascal, we are wise enough to appreciate our contradictions but not wise enough to resolve them. He winds up using probability calculations as a ladder to heaven—a ladder that is kicked away after religious conversion.
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Schopenhauer on the Principle of Sufficient Reason

Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures, 1971
‘The Principle of Sufficient Reason in all its forms is the sole principle and the sole support of all necessity. For necessity has no other true and distinct meaning than that of the infallibility of the consequence when the reason is posited. Accordingly every necessity is
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