Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz or Leibnitz (1 July 1646 [O.S. 21 June] – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist...
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz (1 July 1646 [O.S...
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a major contributor to mathematics, physics, philosophy, theology, logic, and early computer science; independent inventor...
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The alphabet of human thought (Latin: alphabetum cogitationum humanarum) is a concept originally proposed by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz that provides a...
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psychology and psychophysics – and where two centuries earlier Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz had developed his philosophy and theoretical psychology, which...
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Innatism (category Articles with Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy links)
are not the source of knowledge as proposed by John Locke, but catalysts to the uncovering of knowledge. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz suggested that we are...
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Johann Gottfried von". The New Student's Reference Work. 1914. "Herder, Johann Gottfried von". Encyclopedia Americana. 1920. The Jürgen Trabant Wilhelm von...
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Why is there anything at all? (redirect from Fundamental question of metaphysics)
has been raised or commented on by a range of philosophers and physicists, including Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Martin Heidegger...
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Studia Leibnitiana (category Works about Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz)
behalf of the Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Gesellschaft. Studia Leibnitiana publishes articles and book reviews in English, French and German. Outline of Gottfried...
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Rationalism (redirect from Criticism of rationalism)
gained this knowledge independently of sense experience. To argue in favor of this thesis, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, a prominent German philosopher, says...
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German philosophy (redirect from Philosophy of Germany)
continental traditions. It covers figures such as Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche...
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cannot be infinitely small, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz argued that the theory of infinitesimals implies the introduction of ideal numbers which might be...
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Computer science (redirect from Diversity of computer science)
of sophisticated computing equipment. Wilhelm Schickard designed and constructed the first working mechanical calculator in 1623. In 1673, Gottfried Leibniz...
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Bénédicte Savoy (category Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners)
the Académie Française 2015: Prix de l'Académie de Berlin 2016: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize awarded by the German Research Foundation 2017: Kythera-Prize...
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constructs of chance and probability to create new words through his version of a word game. In 1666, philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz published his...
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Giannina Braschi Giorgio Agamben Giovanni Gentile G.K. Chesterton Gottfried Leibniz Gustave de Molinari Guy Debord H. L. A. Hart Han Fei Hannah Arendt...
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Mathematics (redirect from Topical outline of mathematics)
Isaac Newton (1643–1727) and Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716). Leonhard Euler (1707–1783), the most notable mathematician of the 18th century, unified these...
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James Frederick Ferrier G.W.F. Hegel Thomas Hobbes David Hume Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz John Locke Michel de Montaigne William James Immanuel Kant Søren...
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a German philosopher and one of the most influential figures of German idealism...
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I Ching (redirect from Classic of Changes)
later taken up in China by the Qing politician Zhang Zhidong. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who was corresponding with Jesuits in China, wrote the first...
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Entscheidungsproblem (category Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz)
known as the Church–Turing thesis. The origin of the Entscheidungsproblem goes back to Gottfried Leibniz, who in the seventeenth century, after having...
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Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt (22 June 1767 – 8 April 1835) was a German philosopher, linguist, government functionary, diplomat...
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Hyperreal number (category Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets via Module:Annotated link)
numbers satisfy the transfer principle, a rigorous version of Leibniz's heuristic law of continuity. The transfer principle states that true first-order...
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Theodicy (category Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz)
mere wrongdoing. John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz define good and evil in terms of pleasure and pain. Others such as Swinburne find...
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Philosophers' Tales) where he criticized René Descartes and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. He was also critical of Wolff. Hassel saw all knowledge as being obtained...
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Differential (mathematics) (redirect from Variable of integration)
rigorous. Isaac Newton referred to them as fluxions. However, it was Gottfried Leibniz who coined the term differentials for infinitesimal quantities and...
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Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, 1710 Gottfried Leibniz, Théodicée, 1710 Gottfried Leibniz, Monadology, 1714 (printed 1720) Giambattista...
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Kilgour Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster Gottfried Leibniz Alexander Ivanovich Mikhailov S. R. Ranganathan Seymour Lubetzky Wilhelm Ostwald Paul Otlet Gerald Salton...
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (category Members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences)
1790s with Schiller, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Johann Gottfried Herder, Alexander von Humboldt, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and August and Friedrich Schlegel have...
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The Analyst (redirect from Ghosts of departed quantities)
direct attack on the foundations of calculus, specifically on Isaac Newton's notion of fluxions and on Leibniz's notion of infinitesimal change. From his...
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