It might seem odd that in M53 Leibniz insists that God has a choice only to proceed to state that there is a sufficient reason ‘determining’ God’s choice. But ‘determining’ here does not mean ‘forcing’ or ‘necessitating’ but rather something softer like ‘resolving’, that is, the sufficient reason is what enables God to whittle down the number of available choices to just one and makes him want to choose it.
