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By Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Even if Leibniz's writing types an incredible corpus, no unmarried paintings stands as a cannonical expression of his entire philosophy. additionally, the big variety of Leibniz's paintings - letters, released papers, and fragments on quite a few philosophical, spiritual, mathematical, and medical questions over a fifty-year interval - heightens the problem of getting ready an version of his writings in English translation from the French and Latin.
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See the "Dialogue" (August 1677), pp. 268-72 below. 58 LEIBNIZ: BASIC WORKS same. " DISCOURSE ON METAPHYSICS 59 27. How Our Soul Can Be Compared to Empty Tablets and How Our Notions Come from the Senses. ISTOTLE preferred to compare our soul to tablets that are still blank, where there is room for writing," and he maintained that nothing is in our understanding that does not come from the senses. That agrees better with the popular notions, as is Aristotle's way, but Plato goes deeper. However, these kinds of doxologies or practicologies may be acceptable in ordinary usage, much as we see that those who follow Copernicus do not stop saying that the sun rises and sets.
It can then be said that God is our immediate external object and that we see all things by him. For example, when we see the sun and the stars, it is God who has given them NO 96. Aristotle, De Anima, Book II, chap. 4. The doctrine that nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses, attributed to Aristotle by the Scholastics, does not actually occur in Aristotle; perhaps it is a rendering of Posterior Analytics, Book II, chap. 19, or Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI, chap. 3, sec. 3.
But this would not show that it was necessary in itself nor that the contrary implies a contradiction. It is 82. The Latin is an approximate paraphrase of the preceding clause. 46 LEIBNIZ: BASIC WORKS reasonable and certain in almost the same way that God will always do the best, even though what is less perfect does not imply a contradiction. For it will be found that the demonstration of this predicate of Caesar is not as absolute as those of numbers or of geometry, but that it supposes the sequence of things that God has freely chosen, a sequence based on God's first free decree always to do what is most perfect and on God's decree with respect to human nature, following out of the first decree, that man will always do (although freely) that which appears to be best.