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sufficient reason
n Philosophy
1. (Philosophy / Logic) the principle that nothing happens by pure chance, but that an explanation must always be available
2. (Philosophy) the view that such an explanation is a reason for God to have chosen one alternative rather than another


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The very circumstance of his being her father's choice too, was so much in his disfavour, that had he been deserving her, in every other respect yet THAT of itself ought to have been a sufficient reason in the Eyes of Janetta for rejecting him.
But it truly is "monotonous and uninviting," and there is no sufficient reason for describing it as being otherwise.
And now, I began to wonder at myself for being in the coach, and to doubt whether I had sufficient reason for being there, and to consider whether I should get out presently and go back, and to argue against ever heeding an anonymous communication, and, in short, to pass through all those phases of contradiction and indecision to which I suppose very few hurried people are strangers.
 
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