Leibniz

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• The activity, or appetition, that Leibniz regards as characterizing the monads is intimately bound up with his Principle of Sufficient Reason. Continental Rationalism
• Since Leibniz 'time the term monad has been used by various philosophers to designate indivisible centres of force, but as a general rule these units are not understood to possess the power of representation or perception, which is the distinguishing characteristic of the Leibnizian monad. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
• While Newtonian matter-theory was depicted as a rival to Leibnizian immaterialism in the mid-18th century, in for example the Institutions de Physique of Mme du Chatelet, Newton was no ordinary corpuscularian or mechanical philosopher, and Kant did not have to contend with that now old-fashioned ontology. Kant and Leibniz
• All this depended in turn on mathematical progress, notably calculus developed by Newton and Leibniz, which allowed for actuarial calculations.
• In mathematics, Newton was the first to develop a full range of algorithms for symbolically determining what we now call integrals and derivatives, but he subsequently became fundamentally opposed to the idea, championed by Leibniz, of transforming mathematics into a discipline grounded in symbol manipulation. Isaac Newton
• The edition of Leibniz's philosophical works in Latin and French, published by Rudolph Erich Raspe (Leibniz 1765; cf. Hallo 1934) contained some up to then unpublished letters and six pieces from the unpublished papers, of which two, “Difficultates quaedam logicae” and “Historia et commendatio linguae charactericae”, are relevant to logic. Leibniz's Influence on 19th Century Logic
• Nor did the Leibnizian method of differentials escape Berkeley's strictures. Continuity and Infinitesimals
• He had weekly meetings with her and at her request he entered into dispute with Leibniz over the nature of space and time.
• Leibniz, meanwhile, believed every atom in the universe to have a soul, the universe being a projection through them of God's will, like a cosmic hologram.
• [For a reinterpretation of Leibniz, with an eye to tropes inter alia, see C. Schneider (2001), bearing in mind Leibniz's own words: “Interpretari est docere circa orationem seu orationem non satis cognitum facere cognitum.”] Tropes