Comment by contractualist on 02/02/2025 at 00:26 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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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.

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Comment by locklear24 at 02/02/2025 at 00:31 UTC

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You’re FALSELY conflating justification (a given reason) for the process of REASONING.

I reject it because it hasn’t been demonstrated to be true in all cases. With the potential for brute facts to exist, there’s no reason to accept the principle as anything more than a heuristic.

Saying that it’s more than a heuristic IS arbitrary. Making the assumption is just useful; it’s not upholding the PSR as a deductively valid axiom of truth.