Sufficient Reason (Palider-2019)

This is a definition of Sufficient Reason that states "An agent takes theory A to be a sufficient reason for (accepting) theory B iff the following four conditions are met:

(1) The agent accepts A.

(2) The agent accepts that A → B.

(3) The agent employs ε.

(4) The agent accepts (ε, A, A→B) →_ε (Should accept B)."

This definition of Sufficient Reason was formulated by Kye Palider in 2019.1

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Modification	Community	Date Suggested	Summary	Verdict	Verdict Rationale	Date Assessed
Sciento-2019-0010	Scientonomy	23 December 2019	Accept the new definitions of sufficient reason, reason, support, and normative inference.	Open

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Sufficient Reason (Palider-2019) is an attempt to answer the following question: What is sufficient reason? How should it be defined?

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Description

A Sufficient Reason is an agent's actual reason for accepting a theory. It is sufficient as it guarantees, by the Sufficient Reason theorem (Palider-2019), that an agent accept the theory for which there is a sufficient reason. A sufficient reason aims to separate the components by which an agent accepts a theory: into acceptance of the theory that serves as a reason, the acceptance of Implication (Palider-2019), the employment of a method, and the acceptance of Normative Inference (Palider-2019). A sufficient reason is to be contrasted with a Reason (Palider-2019) as it further involves the acceptance of the reason. Some questions surrounding acceptance without a sufficient reason remain to be explored (Theory Acceptance without Sufficient Reason).

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