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... argue for the existence of a Creator, ironically inverting Leibniz\\\'s postulate that because God exists he would have chosen the best possible world (least amount of possible evil) for existence ( http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/4j.h tm ). Leibniz was, of course, famously mocked in Voltaire\\\'s Candide. [Leibniz was also fascinated by the mathematical necessity of Neo-Confucian cosmology: ...

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