sufficient reason
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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How to use sufficient reason in a sentence
And, even then, why should that make it a sufficient reason to oppose the offensive material?
Announcing the intention to obtain an abortion is often sufficient reason to upset many people.
When Fame Is the Reason for Abortion, Does That Make It Wrong? | Tauriq Moosa | April 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOther aspects, like the ability to feel pain, are also considered sufficient reason to deny an abortion.
When Fame Is the Reason for Abortion, Does That Make It Wrong? | Tauriq Moosa | April 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere seems to be no sufficient reason for explaining it by 'necklace' or 'gorget,' as if it were a separable article of attire.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems | Geoffrey ChaucerQui sonus ad aures nostras ideo non peruenit, quia vltra rem fit':—a sufficient reason.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems | Geoffrey Chaucer
It supposes that nothing can be a "sufficient reason" for a body's moving in one particular direction, except some external force.
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive | John Stuart MillThey will doubtless continue to use the term phenacetin and we know of no sufficient reason for doing otherwise.
Indeed, there did not appear to be any good and sufficient reason why I should call upon them for more hard work just then.
A Middy of the King | Harry Collingwood
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