Questions tagged [leibniz]

Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz (1646 - 1716) was a German philosopher, logician and mathematician. He is associated with rationalism and the calculus.

The following are some sources for more information about Leibniz.

Wikipedia contributors. (2019, July 14). Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 22:27, July 20, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz&oldid=906202067
Burnham, Douglas. "Gottfried Leibniz: Metaphysics" Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://www.iep.utm.edu/leib-met/
Look, Brandon C., "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2017/entries/leibniz/.
Internet Archive. https://archive.org/search.php?query=Gottfried%20Leibniz

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What is it that Leibniz calls a “Monad”?

What is a “monad” as introduced by Gottfried Leibniz in his Monadology? What is the purpose of monads for Leibniz' philosophical arguments? EDIT: I've found basic definitions like those found in the comments, too. However I also found rather…

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asked Dec 03 '11 at 11:18

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Leibniz monads/connection to the physical universe/atom

Today I heard that any object is an agregate of many, but finitely many Leibniz monads. I would like to know if it can be counted how many monads form an electron or proton. What is the difference and connection between a monad and an atom?

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asked May 10 '16 at 12:24

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Present importance of Leibniz Monadology

Has the monadology of Leibniz any influence on contemporary philosophy? Note. I do not ask about its historical importance but about its present influence.

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asked Aug 23 '15 at 16:29

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Application of Leibniz's law to infer that things are different

In terms of practical reasoning, what are the constraints/conditions where one can infer that (putatively) two things are not identical on the basis of them seeming to have different properties? At first read this might seem odd, but consider the…

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asked Mar 22 '16 at 13:22

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Leibniz -- Why Must Substance be Indivisible/unified?

Leibniz seems to have this notion that unity is a necessary property of substance, and that substance cannot be divisible. Why is this the case? Couldn't it be the case that substance was like water in the sense that when you divide it it's still…

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asked Jun 11 '18 at 04:10

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Is spacetime a compound substance in Liebnizs Monadology?

In monadology, Liebniz describes monads as the true atoms, that which cannot be broken into parts, and enters into compounds. They are simple substances. Nor can they have shape, extension or divisibility. Now take spacetime itself; this obviously…

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asked Jun 25 '12 at 18:02

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How did Anne Conway derive her notion of a monad from the Kabbalah?

Lady Conway was a 17th century Philosopher. The SEP entry on her states: Her concept of the monad, which is indebted to the Kabbalism, anticipates Leibniz. I have only the slightest acquaintance with Jewish Kabbalism - and generally think of it as…

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asked Jun 08 '14 at 11:25

Mozibur Ullah

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