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sufficient reason

noun philosophy

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

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Nearby words

  1. suffice,
  2. suffice it to say,
  3. sufficiency,
  4. sufficient,
  5. sufficient condition,
  6. sufficiently,
  7. suffix,
  8. suffixation,
  9. suffixion,
  10. sufflate
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