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Now, as there is an infinity of possible universes in the ideas of god, and as only one of them can exist, there must be a sufficient reason for god's choice, which determines him toward one rather than another. and this reason can be found only in the fitness, or the degrees of perfection, that these worlds contain, since each possible thing has the right to claim existence in proportion to the perfection it involves.
-Gottfried Leibniz
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Now, As There Is An Infinity Of

Gottfried Leibniz
Now, as there is an infinity of possible universes in the ideas of god, and as only one of them can exist, there must be a sufficient reason for god's choice, which determines him toward one rather than another. and this reason can be found only in the fitness, or the degrees of perfection, that these worlds contain, since each possible thing has the right to claim existence in proportion to the perfection it involves.
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