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Single Idea 2101
[filed under theme 27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / a. Experience of time
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Full Idea
To ask why God did not make everything a year sooner would be reasonable if time were something apart from temporal things, but time is just the succession of things, which remains the same if the universe is created a year sooner.
Gist of Idea
If everything in the universe happened a year earlier, there would be no discernible difference
Source
Gottfried Leibniz (Letters to Samuel Clarke [1716], 3.6)
Book Ref
Leibniz,Gottfried: 'Philosophical Writings', ed/tr. Parkinson,G.H.R. [Dent 1973], p.212
The
15 ideas
from 'Letters to Samuel Clarke'
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22894
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If time were absolute that would make God's existence dependent on it
[Leibniz, by Bardon]
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2099
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The existence of God, and all metaphysics, follows from the Principle of Sufficient Reason
[Leibniz]
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2098
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The principle of sufficient reason is needed if we are to proceed from maths to physics
[Leibniz]
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3646
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There is always a reason why things are thus rather than otherwise
[Leibniz]
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2100
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Space and time are purely relative
[Leibniz]
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2101
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If everything in the universe happened a year earlier, there would be no discernible difference
[Leibniz]
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2102
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Atomism is irrational because it suggests that two atoms can be indistinguishable
[Leibniz]
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2103
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The idea that the universe could be moved forward with no other change is just a fantasy
[Leibniz]
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2104
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No reason could limit the quantity of matter, so there is no limit
[Leibniz]
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2105
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Things are infinitely subdivisible and contain new worlds, which atoms would make impossible
[Leibniz]
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2106
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The only simple things are monads, with no parts or extension
[Leibniz]
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2107
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No time exists except instants, and instants are not even a part of time, so time does not exist
[Leibniz]
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20965
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Leibniz upheld conservations of momentum and energy
[Leibniz, by Papineau]
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21346
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The ratio between two lines can't be a feature of one, and cannot be in both
[Leibniz]
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19385
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All simply substances are in harmony, because they all represent the one universe
[Leibniz]
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