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Ideas for 'Natural Kinds and Biological Realism', 'Letters to Des Bosses' and 'Pyrrhonian Arguments (frags)'

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28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / e. Miracles

12784	Allow no more miracles than are necessary [Leibniz]
	Full Idea: Miracles should not be increased beyond necessity.
	From: Gottfried Leibniz (Letters to Des Bosses [1715], 1716.05.29)
	A reaction: Leibniz defends miracles (where Spinoza dismisses them). This remark is, of course, an echo of Ockham's Razor, that 'entities' should not be multiplied beyond necessity. It is hard to disagree with his proposal. Zero might be result, though.