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Single Idea 19372

[from 'works' by Gottfried Leibniz, in 18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / a. Origin of concepts ]

Full Idea

Leibniz understood concepts as corresponding to eternal possibilities, with both concepts and their ordering having their foundation in the divine mind.

Gist of Idea

Concepts are ordered, and show eternal possibilities, deriving from God

Source

report of Gottfried Leibniz (works [1690]) by Richard T.W. Arthur - Leibniz 2 'Nominalism'

Book Reference

Arthur, Richard T.W.: 'Leibniz' [Polity 2014], p.39


A Reaction

It is is no longer the fashion to think of concepts as 'ordered', and yet there is a multitude of dependence relations between them.