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sufficient reason
(suf|fi¦cient rea¦son)
noun
[
mass noun
]
Philosophy
the principle (associated particularly with G.W. Leibniz) that all events must ultimately be explicable in terms of the reasons a divine being would have had for choosing one alternative rather than another.
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