Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz on Simple Ideas and Primary 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 Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz

 

A video about Leibniz, Modality and Possible Worlds:

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

Secondary Sources: Cambridge Companion to Leibniz by Nicholas Jolley

Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography by Maria Rosa Antognazza

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