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Single Idea 3646
[filed under theme 2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 2. Sufficient Reason
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Full Idea
Nothing happens without a sufficient reason why it should be thus rather than otherwise.
Gist of Idea
There is always a reason why things are thus rather than otherwise
Source
Gottfried Leibniz (Letters to Samuel Clarke [1716], 3.2)
Book Ref
Leibniz,Gottfried: 'Philosophical Writings', ed/tr. Parkinson,G.H.R. [Dent 1973], p.211
The
23 ideas
with the same theme
[claim that there is a reason for everything]:
1496
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The earth is stationary, because it is in the centre, and has no more reason to move one way than another
[Anaximander, by Aristotle]
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20910
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Everything happens necessarily, and for a reason
[Democritus]
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306
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Nothing can come to be without a cause
[Plato]
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5969
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Chrysippus said the uncaused is non-existent
[Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
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4819
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There is necessarily for each existent thing a cause why it should exist
[Spinoza]
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4642
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No fact can be real and no proposition true unless there is a Sufficient Reason (even if we can't know it)
[Leibniz]
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5042
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For every event it is possible for an omniscient being to give a reason for its occurrence
[Leibniz]
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2098
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The principle of sufficient reason is needed if we are to proceed from maths to physics
[Leibniz]
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3646
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There is always a reason why things are thus rather than otherwise
[Leibniz]
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2104
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No reason could limit the quantity of matter, so there is no limit
[Leibniz]
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3347
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Leibniz said the principle of sufficient reason is synthetic a priori, since its denial is not illogical
[Leibniz, by Benardete,JA]
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18241
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Sufficient reason is implied by contradiction, of an insufficient possible which exists
[Wolff, by Korsgaard]
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19807
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Both nature and reason require that everything has a cause
[Rousseau]
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5563
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The principle of sufficient reason is the ground of possible experience in time
[Kant]
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5565
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Proof of the principle of sufficient reason cannot be found
[Kant]
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23232
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Sufficient reason makes the transition from the particular to the general
[Fichte]
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19661
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Making sufficient reason an absolute devalues the principle of non-contradiction
[Hegel, by Meillassoux]
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4187
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'There is nothing without a reason why it should be rather than not be' (a generalisation of 'Why?')
[Schopenhauer]
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21918
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Sufficient Reason can't be proved, because all proof presupposes it
[Schopenhauer, by Lewis,PB]
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4643
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The Principle of Sufficient Reason does not presuppose that all explanations will be causal explanations
[Baggini /Fosl]
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19666
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If we insist on Sufficient Reason the world will always be a mystery to us
[Meillassoux]
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14018
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Is Sufficient Reason self-refuting (no reason to accept it!), or is it a legitimate explanatory tool?
[Bourne]
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17263
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Why do rationalists accept Sufficient Reason, when it denies the existence of fundamental facts?
[Correia/Schnieder]
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