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244 | Katie Elliott on Metaphysics, Chance, and Explanation
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Principle of Sufficient Reason
For any kind of inquiry, you have to start by taking some things for granted. But I guess this is why it seems challenging to me to be a metaphysician because I don't think that there actually is the principle of sufficient reason. It's seductive to say something like, well, without laws, things wouldn't make sense. And if we're saying some things are laws, what are we really saying about the world?
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