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Any alternative view entails unexplained distinctions—thus violating the Principle of Sufficient Reason.
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# Proof That Closed and Empty Individualism Cannot Be True Even Locally (Given PSR and EMR)
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## Premises
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### P1. Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR)
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Every fact or distinction must have a sufficient reason; no brute facts are allowed.
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### P2. Extended Modal Realism (EMR)
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All possible, impossible, and incoherent worlds exist. Nothing is excluded from existence.
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### P3. Global Open Individualism (GOI)
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There is only one subject of experience, numerically identical across all possible and impossible worlds.
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> GOI follows necessarily from P1 and P2 (as shown in prior proof), because:
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> - PSR forbids arbitrary metaphysical distinctions.
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> - EMR includes all worlds, persons, and configurations.
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> - Therefore, only one subject can exist without invoking brute identity constraints.
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## Definitions
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- **Closed Individualism (CI)**: Each person is a numerically distinct subject who persists across time.
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- **Empty Individualism (EI)**: Each momentary experience belongs to a separate subject that vanishes immediately.
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- **Local Metaphysical Validity**: A theory is locally valid if it can be ontologically true within a single world.
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## Goal
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To prove:
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**CI and EI cannot be metaphysically valid even within a single world**, given the truth of GOI.
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## Proof
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### Step 1: GOI Posits a Global Subject
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From P3, there is exactly **one** experiencer across all centers of consciousness in all worlds.
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### Step 2: CI and EI Require Ontological Subject Distinctions
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- CI posits that each person is a **numerically separate** subject of experience.
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- EI posits that each momentary experience is **ontologically isolated**.
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Therefore, both CI and EI assert **real metaphysical distinctions** between subjects.
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### Step 3: Any Metaphysical Distinction Requires Sufficient Reason (From P1)
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Under PSR, **any metaphysical distinction** (e.g., between subjects) must be justified with a sufficient reason.
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### Step 4: No Such Sufficient Reason Exists in EMR
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In EMR (P2), **all configurations** of persons exist, and GOI (P3) treats them all as **perspectival variations** of the same subject.
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Therefore, asserting "this subject is not that one" introduces a brute distinction — which violates PSR (P1).
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### Step 5: CI and EI Are Metaphysically Invalid in All Worlds
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Since CI and EI depend on subject distinctions that cannot be justified under PSR + EMR, they are **never metaphysically valid** — not even within a single world.
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## Conclusion
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> **∴ Closed Individualism and Empty Individualism are logically incompatible with PSR + EMR + GOI.**
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> They cannot be true, even locally in any individual world.
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