Topic: reality is a machine
Group: mathematics
Group: philosophy of science
Topic: religion
Topic: object and value equivalence
Topic: atoms and molecules
Topic: vitalism, the soul
Topic: special relativity
Topic: physics
Topic: statistical mechanics
Topic: what is truth
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Reference
Leibniz, G.W.,
"Discourse on metaphysics", 1686.
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Other Reference
p. 53-93 in Leibniz, G.W., Philosophical Texts, translated by Francks, R., Woolhouse, R.S., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998
Notes
first published in 1846
Quotations
58 ;;Quote: God does nothing that is not orderly; everything conforms to the universal order; even extraordinary events
| 58+;;Quote: there is a geometrical line through every finite set of points
| 58+;;Quote: God choose the world that is simplest in theories and richest in phenomena
| 60 ;;Quote: no two substances are identical; each singular substances expresses the whole world in its own way, including all that happens to it
| 62 ;;Quote: there is more to objects than extension; must be something like a soul or substantial form
| 62+;;Quote: size, shape, and motion are relative to our perceptions; like color, heat, etc.
| 69 ;;Quote: God conserves force but not motion
| 69+;;Quote: perpetual motion is impossible; due to friction and the conservation of force
| 69 ;;Quote: force should be estimated by the size of its effect instead of its motion
| 69+;;Quote: Descartes was mistaken because he put too much trust in his thinking; his followers perpetuate the mistake
| 71 ;;Quote: use force to explain corporeal phenomena; size, shape, and motion are not entirely real
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