 | Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz - 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 410
...reality but they are merely modalities ; only metaphysical points or those of substance (constituted by forms or souls) are exact and real, and without them there would be nothing real, for without true unities there could not be multiplicity. 12. After having established these propositions... | |
 | Benjamin Rand - 1912 - عدد الصفحات: 766
...reality but they are merely modalities; only metaphysical points or those of substance (constituted by forms or souls) are exact and real, and without them there would be nothing real, for without true unities there could not be multiplicity. 12. After having established these proportions... | |
 | Alexander Sissel Kohanski - 1984 - عدد الصفحات: 352
...view. "It is only metaphysical points, or points of substance [Monads, "formal atoms"] . . . which are exact and real, and without them there would be nothing real, since there could be no multitude without true unities." In modern physics, Planck's quantum of radiation... | |
 | Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz - 1989 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...exact, but they are merely modalities. Only metaphysical points or points of substance (constituted by forms or souls) are exact and real, and without them...real, since without true unities there would be no multitude. After I established these things, I thought I was entering port; but when I began to meditate... | |
 | Donald Rutherford - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 324
...unities" are unextended, soullike forms: "Only metaphysical points or points of substance (constituted by forms or souls) are exact and real, and without them...real, since without true unities there would be no multitude" (GP IV 483/AG 142). This same pattern of commitments is observed when Leibniz begins to... | |
 | Nicholas Jolley - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 520
...presupposes these for its existence: Only metaphysical points or points of substance (constituted by forms or souls) are exact and real, and without them...real, since without true unities there would be no multitude. (G IV 483: AG 142) While some changes do occur in Leibniz's view of substance between the... | |
 | 2006 - عدد الصفحات: 284
...only metaphysical or substantial points (constituted by forms or souls) which are both indivisible and real, and without them there would be nothing...without true unities there would be no multiplicity. 46 Gerauld de Cordemoy (d. 1684), French occasionalist, distinguished between indivisible material... | |
 | Roger Ariew, Eric Watkins - 2000 - عدد الصفحات: 326
...exact, but they are merely modalities. Only metaphysical points or points of substance (constituted by forms or souls) are exact and real, and without them...real, since without true unities there would be no multitude. After I established these things, I thought I was entering port; but when I began to meditate... | |
 | Amélie Oksenberg Rorty - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 544
...exact, but they are merely modalities. Only metaphysical points or points of substance (constituted by forms or souls) are exact and real, and without them...real, since without true unities there would be no multitude. Preface to the New Essays (1703-05) Since the Essays on the Understanding, published by... | |
 | John Lane Bell - 2005 - عدد الصفحات: 354
...mathematical points are exact, but they are merely modalities; only metaphysical points [ie, monads]... are exact and real, and without them there would be nothing real, for without true unities there would be no multiplicity.5 Like William of Ockham, Leibniz held that... | |
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Thus physical points are indivisible only in appearance; mathematical points are exact, but they are merely modalities. Only metaphysical points or points of substance (constituted by forms or souls) are exact and real, and without them there would be... 
