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The German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz made a similar argument with his principle of sufficient reason in 1714.

" There can be found no fact that is true or existent, or any true proposition ," he wrote, " without there being a sufficient reason for its being so and not otherwise, although we cannot know these reasons in most cases.

" He formulated the cosmological argument succinctly: " Why is there something rather than nothing?

The sufficient reason [...] is found in a substance which [...] is a necessary being bearing the reason for its existence within itself.