Theory Acceptance without Sufficient Reason

How do theories become accepted without a sufficient reason, i.e. in the cases of circularity or theories without a reason?

By the Sufficient Reason theorem, theories become accepted when they have a sufficient reason to be accepted. The question remains as to how theories become accepted, if at all, without a sufficient reason. Two common cases where theories seem to be accepted without a sufficient reason are in self-evident theories and in circular reasoning.1p. 28 In self-evident theories, the theories seem to be accepted without another theory as a reason. In cases of circular reasoning, two or more theories seem to be reasons for one another, without an independent reason for accepting either one of them. These cases merit further exploration as they are not immediately explainable by the scientonomic theory.

In the scientonomic context, this question was first formulated by Kye Palider in 2019.

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