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On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason

by Arthur Schopenhauer

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§ 5 The Principle Itself

We purpose showing further on that the Principle of Sufficient Reason is an expression common to several à priori notions. Meanwhile, it must be stated under some formula or other. I choose Wolf’s as being the most comprehensive: Nihil est sine ratione cur potius sit, quam non sit. Nothing is without a reason for its being.15

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