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# 🧠 Proof of Extended Modal Realism
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## **Definitions**
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### **Brutalism**
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Brutalism is the metaphysical view that **some facts obtain without any explanation, cause, or sufficient reason**. These are called **brute facts** — they are simply true, without any further grounding or intelligibility. Brutalism explicitly denies the Principle of Sufficient Reason.
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### **Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR)**
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The PSR is the principle that:
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> *For every fact that obtains, there is a sufficient reason why it is so and not otherwise.*
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It applies not only to empirical events but to metaphysical facts, modal realities, and the existence of the universe itself.
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### **Extended Modal Realism (EMR)**
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Extended Modal Realism is the view that:
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> *All worlds — possible, impossible, and incoherent — exist.*
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This includes:
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- Logically consistent worlds (standard modal realism),
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- Metaphysically or nomologically impossible worlds (violating identity or physical law),
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- Logically incoherent worlds (e.g., containing contradictions or undefined objects).
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EMR rejects all arbitrary limits on what counts as a “world,” allowing every definable or conceivable structure to have being in some modal domain.
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## **Argument**
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### **Premise 1:**
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**Brutalism** denies the PSR and allows for brute facts — facts without explanation or intelligibility.
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### **Premise 2:**
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**Brutalism is incoherent** because:
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- It undermines the very possibility of reasoning, inference, and justification.
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- Any assertion (including brutalism itself) presupposes the availability of sufficient reason.
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- Therefore, brutalism is self-defeating and cannot possibly be correct.
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### **Premise 3:**
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If brutalism is false, then the **Principle of Sufficient Reason must be accepted universally** — no fact may be admitted without a sufficient reason.
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### **Premise 4:**
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Any metaphysical system that includes only **some** worlds (e.g., only possible or only coherent ones) must provide a **sufficient reason** for excluding others.
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### **Premise 5:**
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No non-arbitrary, sufficient reason can be given for excluding impossible or incoherent worlds without appealing to brute constraint — which reintroduces brutalism and violates the PSR.
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### **Premise 6:**
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**Extended Modal Realism** is the only metaphysical system that **includes all worlds** — possible, impossible, and incoherent — and thus **requires no arbitrary exclusions**.
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## **Conclusion**
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> **Extended Modal Realism must be correct, by necessity.**
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This follows because it is the only metaphysical system that fully satisfies the Principle of Sufficient Reason while avoiding the incoherence of brutalism.
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