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Full Idea
Leibniz's philosophy largely serves to justify and enable a coherent empirical account of the world.
Gist of Idea
Leibniz aims to give coherent rational support for empiricism
Source
report of Gottfried Leibniz (works [1690]) by Franklin Perkins - Leibniz: Guide for the Perplexed 4.I
Book Ref
Perkins,Franklin: 'Leibniz: Guide for the Perplexed' [Continuum 2007], p.120
A Reaction
A nice counter to the simplistic idea of Locke as empiricist and Leibniz as rationalist. Leibniz is explicit that science needs a separate 'metaphysics' to underpin it. Perkins says Locke constructs experience, and Leibniz analyses it.
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