Sentence examples for required a sufficient reason from inspiring English sources

Among all possible worlds that God could have created, his actual choice of one over the others required a "sufficient reason," which, for Leibniz, was the fact that this world was the "best"—despite the existence of evident evils, for any other "possible world" would have had evils of its own sort of even greater magnitude.

Defenders of the argument will contend that judging the principles by the outcome of their application begs the question against them and, indeed, to require a sufficient reason to establish their truth begs the question at hand.

Hay acknowledges that both external and internal forces of patriarchy, including deformed desires, often restrict a woman's autonomy, but argues that this is not a sufficient reason not to require women to resist their oppression.

A century earlier, G.W. Leibniz (1646 1716) had famously defined the principle of this assumption — the principle of sufficient reason — in his Monadology (1714) as that which requires us to acknowledge that there is no fact or truth which lacks a sufficient reason why it should be so, and not otherwise.

(Because high unemployment apparently isn't a sufficient reason).

Logical inconsistency is not a sufficient reason to change the law.

But that is not a sufficient reason to spend £205bn on weapons of mass destruction.

Not everybody thought that was a sufficient reason to begin giving teenagers tastes of wine.

I can't imagine being a sufficient reason for the disruption.

Each time, it was spicy, sweet and invigorating, a sufficient reason to fly to Texas.

"The mere tendency of speech to encourage unlawful acts is not a sufficient reason for banning it," the justice said.