Leibniz's Principle of Sufficient Reason

A very short explanation of the principle of sufficient reason, which was first explicated and made famous by Leibniz. This clip comes from a program on Western Philosophy from a few years back.

#philosophy #leibniz #determinism

[CesarClouds]

Perhaps at the macroscale but in some quatum states causal structures may not be present.

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“It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to
go on further.” -- Hegel

[gordongordonlife]

Even if something happens without reason, isn’t that the reason it happens? Etc….

[Khuno]

What about axioms? Ha! What could possibly ground the principle of non-contradiction?

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The PSR and its corollary occams razor CANNOT be contradicted nor done away with. Natura non saltum facit (literally, "Nature does not make a jump") - Leibniz

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To say that all things are numbers is quite a statement. What does it actually mean? It
means that every number is encoded as a wave of a specific, unique frequency. A wave is
“energy”. It is an infinite energy source. It can never lose any energy. (Monads are the perfect
perpetual motion machines.)
Numbers, therefore, are energy. The number zero is singular because this is a wave with
no energy. It is just a “container” – a mathematical point.
So, the universe, at is most fundamental level, contains nothing but energy waves: which
are ontological numbers. Since zero-energy waves are dimensionless mathematical points, we can
say that the universe contains infinite mathematical points (monads), each of which contains
infinite energy, corresponding to all possible numbers.
Each monad encodes all of the mathematical laws of existence. The laws are ontologically
present in the relationships between all of the numbers. Every monad “knows” what to do
because it has all the information it requires – the laws of mathematics – within it.
To say that the universe comprises nothing but energy is to say that the universe
comprises nothing but numbers – waves; vibrations; frequencies.
Note that using the principle of equivalence, we can also think of numbers as being
encoded as an infinite set of circles, each with a different radius. In fact, we can replace circles
with spheres. The sphere with radius zero is the dimensionless point – the monad – the ORIGIN.
Just think of it. We have returned to a vision something like the beautiful crystal spheres
of the ancients. Our soul is at the centre of an infinite set of concentric spheres, the ultimate
Russian Doll. This is an infinite and eternal energy sphere. All of the energy spheres of all the
monads overlap with each other to create to the ultimate interference pattern – the ultimate
cosmic HOLOGRAM.
Alternatively, we can think of numbers as straight lines, each with a slightly different
relationship to a “point at infinity”. The point at infinity is none other than our soul.
Mathematically, we can come up with many different, but equivalent, ways of conceiving
of the soul. That’s the beauty and flexibility of mathematics. Nothing else has its transformative,
alchemical powers.
So, the crucial point to grasp is that numbers, ontologically, are energy, and the most
special number of all is the origin – zero. People are typically baffled by Pythagoras’s statement
that all things are numbers, yet if that were recast as “all things are energy”, it would be wholly
uncontroversial in the modern day. But a number is actually a more real concept than “energy”.
Until now, no one has ever defined what energy actually is. We have now done so: ontological
numbers are what energy is. Ontological mathematics is therefore the study of numbers/energy.

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The day is coming when Castalia will be created for real. For their own protection, and in order to pursue their greatness, all intellectuals will have to get as far from the madding crowd as possible. The practitioners of the elite intellectual pursuits of art, literature, history, science, philosophy and mathematics will be walled off in an isolated community – Castalia.

[PsychedelicAnxiety]

"#determinism" Leibniz is non-determinist. Things move only according to preestablished harmony and don't move one another