more from Gottfried Leibniz

Single Idea 2115

[catalogued under 3. Truth / D. Coherence Truth / 1. Coherence Truth]

Full Idea

Every body is sensitive to everything in the universe, so that one who saw everything could read in each body what is happening everywhere, and even what has happened and will happen.

Gist of Idea

Everything in the universe is interconnected, so potentially a mind could know everything

Source

Gottfried Leibniz (Monadology [1716], §61)

Book Reference

Leibniz,Gottfried: 'Philosophical Writings', ed/tr. Parkinson,G.H.R. [Dent 1973], p.189