sufficient reason

noun

1. the principle that nothing happens by pure chance, but that an explanation must always be available
2. the view that such an explanation is a reason for God to have chosen one alternative rather than another

Example Sentences

And, even then, why should that make it a sufficient reason to oppose the offensive material?

From The Daily Beast

Announcing the intention to obtain an abortion is often sufficient reason to upset many people.

From The Daily Beast

Other aspects, like the ability to feel pain, are also considered sufficient reason to deny an abortion.

From The Daily Beast

There seems to be no sufficient reason for explaining it by 'necklace' or 'gorget,' as if it were a separable article of attire.

From Project Gutenberg

Qui sonus ad aures nostras ideo non peruenit, quia vltra rem fit':—a sufficient reason.

From Project Gutenberg

It supposes that nothing can be a "sufficient reason" for a body's moving in one particular direction, except some external force.

From Project Gutenberg

They will doubtless continue to use the term phenacetin and we know of no sufficient reason for doing otherwise.

From Project Gutenberg

Indeed, there did not appear to be any good and sufficient reason why I should call upon them for more hard work just then.

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