 Note Leibniz’s definition of a miracle as simply an event that results from God and not from finite substances. However, Leibniz adds, a world in which God is required to perform continuous miracles is a world less perfect, and thereby less praiseworthy, than a world that “unfolds” naturally without the direct intervention of God (Theodicy §16). The idea is that the doctrine of occasionalism must hold that God did not initially get creation right (even if the occasionalist themselves is not willing to make such an assertion) and so must continually step in and repair things to get them to go the way God intends. (This is, of course, not to say that for Leibniz there are no miracles whatsoever. He does speak of events that “surpass all the force of creatures” (Theodicy §249 H 280), including the Creation and the Incarnation.) Some have called Hendrix’s guitar playing “miraculous,” but this is not because his playing was due only to God. Hendrix was a real cause. 