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Single Idea 2103

[catalogued under 27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 4. Substantival Space]

Full Idea

To say that God could cause the universe to move forward in a straight line or otherwise without changing it in any other way is another fanciful supposition.

Gist of Idea

The idea that the universe could be moved forward with no other change is just a fantasy

Source

Gottfried Leibniz (Letters to Samuel Clarke [1716], 4.14)

Book Reference

Leibniz,Gottfried: 'Philosophical Writings', ed/tr. Parkinson,G.H.R. [Dent 1973], p.217