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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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Black black out blackish blackly blackness Blacks guess hazard In bar of justified justify pretend reason say speculate suppose venture			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. Love and Friendship by Austen, Jane View in context But it truly is "monotonous and uninviting," and there is no sufficient reason for describing it as being otherwise. The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context 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. Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context			suede cloth suede glove suede leather suent Suently Suer Suess Eduard suet suet pudding Suetonius suety Suez Suez Canal Suf- suf. Suff. suffer sufferable sufferance sufferer suffering suffice Sufficience sufficiency sufficient sufficient reason sufficiently Sufficing Suffisance Suffisant suffix suffix notation suffixation Suffixion Suffixment Sufflaminate sufflate Sufflation suffocate suffocating suffocation Suffocative Suffolk Suffolk punch Suffossion Suffr. suffragan suffragan bishop Suffraganship Suffragant Suffragate			sufficiencies sufficiency sufficiency sufficiency sufficiency Sufficiency (statistics) Sufficiency in the Liberal Arts sufficient sufficient sufficient sufficient sufficient sufficient amount Sufficient cause Sufficient cause Sufficient cause Sufficient cause Sufficient Completeness Checker Sufficient condition sufficient evidence Sufficient Evidence To Convict sufficient for the purpose sufficient foundation sufficient in law sufficient notice sufficient number sufficient on its face sufficient on the pleadings sufficient proof sufficient quantity sufficient reason Sufficient Reason, Principle of Sufficient statistic sufficient to make out a case Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof sufficiently sufficiently sufficiently sufficiently Sufficiently large sufficiently small sufficiently strong Sufficiently Uniform Memory Organization sufficing sufficing Suffield Academy Suffield Experimental Station Suffield Financial Group Suffield Fire Department Suffield Volunteer Ambulance Association Suffisance Suffisant Suffisant suffix suffix suffix suffix suffix Suffix (computer science) Suffix (computer science) Suffix (linguistics)

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