The Science of the Individual: Leibnizs Ontology of Individual Substance
Publication year: 2005
ISBN: 978-1-4020-3260-8
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In his well-known Discourse on Metaphysics, Leibniz puts individual substance at the basis of metaphysical building. In so doing, he connects himself to a venerable tradition. His theory of individual concept, however, breaks with another idea of the same tradition, that no account of the individual as such can be given.Contrary to what has been commonly accepted, Leibniz’s intuitions are not the mere result of the transcription of subject-predicate logic, nor of the uncritical persistence of some old metaphysical assumptions.
Subject: Humanities, Social Science and Law, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Spinoza, issue, logic, metaphysics, ontology, philosophy, truth
