Thursday, October 28, 2010

Gottfried Wilhem Freiherr von Leibniz on Ideas and First Principles

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"Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof."

-Gottfried Leibniz

Yet another BBC video, Anthony Quinton talks about Spinoza and Leibniz:

Primary Source: Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz

 

Secondary Source: Leibniz (The Routledge Philosophers) by Nicholas Jolley

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