Comment by locklear24 on 02/02/2025 at 00:21 UTC

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View submission: The Principle of Sufficient Reason is Self-Evident and its Criticisms are Self-Defeating (a case for the PSR being the fourth law of logic)

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It’s purely arbitrary to grant it in the first place. There’s no reason to accept it beyond as a strong heuristic.

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Comment by contractualist at 02/02/2025 at 00:26 UTC

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If accepting something is arbitrary, then it lacks sufficient reasons to accept it, and it would be reasonable to reject it. But to reject the PSR for lack of sufficient reasons is to demand sufficient reasons, as the PSR states. You can't reject a standard using that same standard.

The PSR isn't a concept subject to examination, the PSR is *how* we examine - its baked into what it means to accept or reject something based on reasons.