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    Supports→Every true or existent fact and every true assertion has a sufficient reason why it is thus and not otherwise.

    We can find no true assertion without there being a sufficient reason why it is thus and not otherwise.

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    32. And that of sufficient reason, by virtue of which we consider that we can find no true or existent fact, no true assertion, without there being a sufficient reason why it is thus and not otherwise, although most of the time these reasons cannot be known to us. (G VI, 612/L 646)

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