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Single Idea 2595

[filed under theme 28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / b. Teleological Proof ]

Full Idea

The perfect agreement of so many substances which have no communication whatever with each other can only come from a common source.

Gist of Idea

If the universe is a perfect agreement of uncommunicating substances, there must be a common source

Source

Gottfried Leibniz (The Nature and Communication of Substance [1690], p.120)

Book Ref

'The Philosophy of Mind', ed/tr. Beakley,B /Ludlow P [MIT 1992], p.120