Principle of perfection: also called the principle of the best.
Principle of German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) that the actual world is the best of all possible worlds.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) argued that Leibniz did not fully distinguish this principle from that of sufficient reason.
Source:
B Russell, A Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz (1900), ยงยง14-15
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- sufficient reason principle
- continuity law or principle
- modal realism
- vicious circle principle
- Leibniz’s law
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