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Single Idea 18822

[from 'works' by Gottfried Leibniz, in 10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / a. Possible worlds ]

Full Idea

Leibniz argued that each monad mirrors or expresses every monad with which it is compossible. Hence compossibility is an equivalence relation among monads; possible worlds may then be identified as the corresponding equivalence classes.

Gist of Idea

Each monad expresses all its compatible monads; a possible world is the resulting equivalence class

Source

report of Gottfried Leibniz (works [1690]) by Ian Rumfitt - The Boundary Stones of Thought 6.1

Book Reference

Rumfitt,Ian: 'The Boundary Stones of Thought' [OUP 2015], p.154


A Reaction

[Rumfitt cites Benson Mates 1986:IV.1 for this claim] There is an analogous world of all the human minds that are in communication with one another - something like a 'culture'.