Gottfried Leibniz spent several years as a diplomat in France, England, and Holland, where he became acquainted with the leading intellectuals of the age. From LearnThat.org.
Leibniz, is essentially a medium — a mirror in constant flux. From Wordnik.com. [Club Monad] Reference
1671: James Gregory discovers what we call the Leibniz Series an infinite series that sums to pi/4. From Wordnik.com. [Universe Puzzle No. 2 | Universe Today] Reference
5 The phrase "labyrinth of the continuum" appears in Leibniz. From Wordnik.com. [Club Monad] Reference
Sometimes the conjunction of both principles, rather than the Principle by itself, is known as Leibniz's Law. From Wordnik.com. [The Identity of Indiscernibles] Reference
1 The role of the idea of philosophical style in Leibniz's thought is carefully delineated in Fenves 13-32. close window. From Wordnik.com. [Club Monad] Reference
Gottfried Leibniz, is that you!?. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Washington Post Editorial Writers Should Read Their Paper’s Opinion Section] Reference
Later mathematicians such as Leibniz became interested in mathematics by reading his works. From Wordnik.com. [Barney Teaches a "Scientific Fact"] Reference
Even a metaphysical non-corpuscularian such as Leibniz agreed with Boyle in practical terms. From Wordnik.com. [Sticky Wants to Grab] Reference
Borelli considered it impracticable, German savants, such as Leibniz and Professors Sturm and Lohmeier, spoke well of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
Type "B" corresponds to the specifically dynamic, scientific outlook of such as Leibniz, Riemann, Einstein, and Vernadsky. From Wordnik.com. [LaRouche's Latest] Reference
And Leibniz became the first person to publish it. From Wordnik.com. [The Calculus Around You] Reference
Leibniz, Die philosophischen Schriften ..., ed. C. From Wordnik.com. [PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY] Reference
Leibniz is equally repre - sentative with Descartes. From Wordnik.com. [APPEARANCE AND REALITY] Reference
Ms. OUELLETTE: Yes, and we should mention Leibniz. From Wordnik.com. [The Calculus Around You] Reference
Leibniz, for example, was fond of Pythagorean imagery. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Newton and Leibniz discovered calculus at the same time. From Wordnik.com. [Lee Schneider: Where Do Ideas Come From?] Reference
Leibniz makes the first use of the long s, ∫, for integral. From Wordnik.com. [Rudy Campaign Team Deals With Its First Serious Negative Press] Reference
Leibniz himself appreciated the importance of the new science. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Leibniz 'early philosophical conceptions were loosely eclectic. From Wordnik.com. [PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY] Reference
Leibniz? by Robert Hoogenboom on Saturday, Jan 9, 2010 at 2: 50: 48 PM. From Wordnik.com. [Is Anyone Telling Us The Truth?] Reference
The "Monadism" of the philosopher Leibniz was influenced by these reports. From Wordnik.com. [A History of China] Reference
This is the locus classicus for the term in Leibniz, who gives in the same passage. From Wordnik.com. [PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY] Reference
Leibniz 'development of a plan and program for a perennial philosophy was gradual. From Wordnik.com. [PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY] Reference
Two: In classical logic, Leibniz 'Law takes an entity as being just a collection of properties. From Wordnik.com. [George Lakoff: The PolicySpeak Disaster for Health Care] Reference
Among forerunners of Leibniz 'ideas after Aristotle, if any, one might perhaps name the late Hellenistic. From Wordnik.com. [SPACE] Reference
Curiously, thought painted itself into a similar corner after the invention of calculus by Newton and Leibniz. From Wordnik.com. [The Zoom of Abandon] Reference
He believed in a rationally immanent world, but he rejected the hylozoism implicit in Leibniz and Baruch Spinoza. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Lit In South Carolina Proclaims His Committed Christianity] Reference
For instance, many follow the German philosopher Leibniz in thinking that machine-talk excludes talk of consciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Ruse: Accommodationism in the Religion-Science Debate: Why It's Incomplete] Reference
So there became this huge controversy, the calculus wars with Newton and Leibniz just vying for the title of creator. From Wordnik.com. [The Calculus Around You] Reference
He questioned ancient philosophical distinctions that had been respected and observed since the time of Leibniz and Kant. From Wordnik.com. [The Passing of Willard Van Orman Quine] Reference
As Leibniz and many since have noted, there are ordinarily many different theories or beliefs compatible with our evidence. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
But unlike the disciples of Leibniz and C. von Wolff, Kant never attempted to deduce all truth from the principle of unity. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Anyhow, Leibniz holds to the view that all matter is composed of itty-bitty things called monads, and each monad is distinct. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from Codex Infinitum] Reference
The distinction intro - duced by Leibniz between dead power and living power (vis viva) — the latter being understood also as. From Wordnik.com. [VOLKSGEIST] Reference
Science might still transcend the bounds of nations, and a Grotius or Descartes, a Spinoza or a Leibniz, fill the European stage. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Civilization] Reference
But, according to Leibniz 'metaphysical system, each individual person's life is the necessary unravel - ling of his given nature. From Wordnik.com. [FREE WILL AND DETERMINISM] Reference
In this respect there is a certain resemblance with the Theodicee of Leibniz, which, strictly speaking, is a polemic against Bayle. From Wordnik.com. [Lunheng] Reference
Leibniz was supposed to have owned a copy and he was repeatedly asked by Jakob Bernoulli — but without success — to let him see it. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Santayana faults the transcendentalist for equating the validity of mystical experience with that of reason; like Leibniz, says Santayana. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Miller: "Harvard, We Have a Problem"] Reference
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