# Principle of sufficient reason

- Id: `sufficient_reason`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/principle-of-sufficient-reason/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `db29dff2991466c3ad24d2f53bf3a98e808e54fa3979b80dd0fc939a5654c82c`

## Summary

The principle of sufficient reason asks how one object is related to another as ground and consequence within representation, without reducing every such relation to physical causation.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 142 passages across 4 works, including texts still being qualified. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:schopenhauer.world:section-65",
    "passage:schopenhauer.fourfold_root:section-20",
    "passage:schopenhauer.will_in_nature:physical-astronomy.segment-01"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "principe de raison suffisante",
    "principle of sufficient reason",
    "Satz vom zureichenden Grunde"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 4,
    "passages": 142,
    "thinkers": 0,
    "traditions": 0
}
```