Possibilities that Matter II: Material Contingency and Sufficient Reason

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This is the second of a series of papers inspired by a paper I wrote around 1989. In this paper, I consider the notion of material contingency and relate it to the traditional, metaphysically loaded Principle of Sufficient Reason.

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original Duncan, Steven M. (manuscript) "Possibilities that Matter I: Material Possibility".
manuscript Duncan, Steven M. (manuscript) "Possibilities that Matter III: Materially Necessary Being".
manuscript Duncan, Steven M. (manuscript) "Possibilities that Matter IV: The Ground of All Possibilities".

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Steven Merle Duncan
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