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Ideas for 'Concerning the Author', 'Reply to Fifth Objections' and 'Letters to Des Bosses'

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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 5. Metaphysics beyond Science

12780	We can grasp the wisdom of God a priori [Leibniz]
	Full Idea: We can grasp the wisdom of God a priori, and not from the order of the phenomena alone. ... For the senses put nothing forward concerning metaphysical matters.
	From: Gottfried Leibniz (Letters to Des Bosses [1715], 1716.05.29)
	A reaction: Nice instance of the aspirations of big metaphysics, before Kant cut it down to size. The claim is not far off Plato's, that by dialectic we can work out the necessities of the Forms, to which even the gods must bow. Are necessities really kept from us?

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics

14767	The demonstrations of the metaphysicians are all moonshine [Peirce]
	Full Idea: The demonstrations of the metaphysicians are all moonshine.
	From: Charles Sanders Peirce (Concerning the Author [1897], p.2)

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

14764	I am saturated with the spirit of physical science [Peirce]
	Full Idea: I am saturated, through and through, with the spirit of the physical sciences.
	From: Charles Sanders Peirce (Concerning the Author [1897], p.1)