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    The Discourse on Metaphysics (French: Discours de métaphysique, 1686) is a short treatise by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in which he develops a philosophy...
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    ISBN 978-1515243915. Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm. Discourse on Metaphysics. The Rationalists: Rene Descartes – Discourse on Method, Meditations. N.Y.: Dolphin., n...
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  • Discourse on Inequality or Second Discourse, a work by philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau written in 1754 Discourse on Metaphysics, a short treatise written by...
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  • Latin-language text Discourse on Metaphysics. translated by G. R. Montgomery. Strickland Translation "Mathematical Treasure: Leibniz's Papers on Calculus - Differential...
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    Best of all possible worlds (category Concepts in metaphysics)
    mentions God's goodness, and its foundation on tradition, more at length in chapter 3 of his Discourse on Metaphysics: I think that one acts imperfectly if...
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    Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 August 2016. Retrieved 13 April 2018. Leibniz, Gottfried (1880). "Discourse on metaphysics". Die philosophischen schriften...
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    Philosophers engaged in metaphysics are called metaphysicians or metaphysicists. Outside the academic discourse, the term metaphysics is sometimes used in...
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    Spinoza's philosophy spans nearly every area of philosophical discourse, including metaphysics, epistemology, political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of...
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  • Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-08-24. Retrieved 13 April 2018. Leibniz, Gottfried (1880). "Discourse on metaphysics". Die philosophischen schriften...
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    Momentum (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    motion, and vis for force. In 1686, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, in Discourse on Metaphysics, gave an argument against Descartes' construction of the conservation...
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    Monad (philosophy) (category Concepts in ancient Greek metaphysics)
    August 2022. Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von (2005). Discourse on metaphysics, and the monadology. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0486443102...
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  • presence. Having described a pattern—denouncing metaphysics while relying on it—in discourses about metaphysics, Derrida suggests consideration of the same...
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  • Principles of Natural Philosophy; Optics Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz – Discourse on Metaphysics; New Essays Concerning Human Understanding; Monadology Daniel Defoe...
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  • Essay Concerning Human Understanding. 1690. Leibniz, Gottfried. Discourse on Metaphysics and Related Writings, edited and translated by R. N. D. Martin...
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  • Feminist metaphysics aims to question how inquiries and answers in the field of metaphysics have supported sexism. Feminist metaphysics overlaps with fields...
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  • Patriarcha, 1680 Gottfried Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics, 1686 Nicolas Malebranche, Dialogues on Metaphysics, 1688 John Locke, Two Treatises of Government...
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    Primary–secondary quality distinction (category Concepts in metaphysics)
    Leibniz was an early critic of the distinction, writing in his 1686 Discourse on Metaphysics that "[i]t is even possible to demonstrate that the ideas of size...
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  • Substantial form (category Concepts in ancient Greek metaphysics)
    are primitive active forces and are required for his metaphysics. In the Discourse on Metaphysics (§10): [...] the belief in substantial forms has a certain...
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  • Demonstrata (see: Spinozism, Philosophy of Spinoza) 1686 Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics 1687 Newton, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical...
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    ISBN 978-0-631-20604-0. Leibniz, Gottfried (1686). Discourse on Metaphysics. Leibniz, Gottfried (1989) [1702(?)]. "Reflections on the Common Concept of Justice". In Leroy...
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    A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences (1750), also known as Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (French: Discours sur les sciences et...
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    Mind–body problem (category Metaphysics of mind)
    consists only of that mind. Leibniz seems to admit this in his Discourse on Metaphysics, section 14. However, he claims that his principle of harmony,...
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  • Compossibility (category Metaphysical properties)
    are to be found in On the Ultimate Origination of Things, The Discourse in Metaphysics, On Freedom, and throughout his works. The term itself is found in...
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  • Henology (category Concepts in ancient Greek metaphysics)
    account or discourse on the One that appears most notably in the philosophy of Plotinus. Reiner Schürmann describes it as a "metaphysics of radical transcendence"...
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  • The Metaphysical Society of America (MSA) is a philosophical organization founded by Paul Weiss in 1950. As stated in its constitution, "The purpose of...
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  • views De Arte Combinatoria Discourse on Metaphysics, (text at wikisource) Monadology, (text at wikisource) New Essays on Human Understanding Nova Methodus...
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    Antoine Arnauld (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    Wilhelm Leibniz, regarding the latter's views detailed in his "Discourse on Metaphysics" (1686). Arnauld died, aged 82, in Brussels. Popular record for...
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    realized". Leibniz gave another response to the paradox in §6 of Discourse on Metaphysics: "That God does nothing which is not orderly, and that it is not...
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    extraordinary". Obsolete uses include "of, relating to, or dealing with metaphysics". As a noun, the term can mean "a supernatural being", with a particularly...
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    universal pragmatics, along with its related theories such as those on discourse ethics and rational reconstruction. This view of reason is concerned...
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