Principle of plenitude

<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Great_chain_of_being/rMzBFDtc">Great chain of being</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Meinong%27s_jungle/LzXJ1lyL">Meinong's jungle</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Modal_realism/QkMhGpXj">Modal realism</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Murphy%27s_law/nlMFkH9v">Murphy's law</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Pleroma/FCuGUJHj">Pleroma</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Multiverse/GUCDxvPg">Multiverse</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="/facts/Arthur_Lovejoy/oKwozmGY">Arthur Lovejoy</a>, <i>The Great Chain of Being</i>. Harvard University Press, 1936: <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-674-36153-9
<ul><li>Chapter IV "The Principle of Plenitude and the New Cosmography", p. 99–143.</li>
<li>Chapter V "Plenitude and Sufficient Reason in Leibniz and Spinoza", p. 144–182.</li></ul></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="/facts/The_Discarded_Image/nQ0Anv3K">The Discarded Image</a> – mentions the principle in chapters III, IV, and VI</li></ul>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Lovejoy 1936, p. 50. <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Lovejoy 1936, p. 55. <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Caldecott, Stratford (Spring 2003). "Creation as a Call to Holiness". Communio. Archived from the original on 2013-04-14. Retrieved 2005-04-24. God creates whatever exists because it is fitting, not because it is necessary to him, nor because he is constrained by something outside himself. <a href="https://archive.today/20130414104327/http://conservation.catholic.org/caldecott_2.htm" target="_blank">https://archive.today/20130414104327/http://conservation.catholic.org/caldecott_2.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Lovejoy 1936, p. 155. <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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