Single Idea 16897

[catalogued under 2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason]

Full Idea

Leibniz actually characterises reason as the faculty for apprehending priori, necessary truths.

Gist of Idea

Reason is the faculty for grasping apriori necessary truths

Source

report of Gottfried Leibniz (works [1690]) by Tyler Burge - Frege on Apriority (with ps) 2

Book Reference

Burge,Tyler: 'Truth, Thought, Reason (on Frege)' [OUP 2001], p.371


A Reaction

No wonder it is called the Age of Reason when the claims are this grandiose.