Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
And that of sufficient reason, in virtue of which we hold that there can be no fact real or existing, no statement true, unless there be a sufficient reason why it should be so and not otherwise, although these reasons usually cannot be known by us.
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1714 · The Monadology, §32
Checked word-for-word against The Monadology and Other Philosophical Writings · 2026-07-18