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13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

12785	Truth is mutually agreed perception [Leibniz]
	Full Idea: In the mutual agreement of perceivers consists the truth of the phenomena.
	From: Gottfried Leibniz (Letters to Des Bosses [1715], 1716.05.29)
	A reaction: This remark is startling close to the 'perspectivism' that crops up in the late notebooks of Nietzsche. Leibniz was keen on relativism in many areas, starting with the nature of space. I personally think Leibniz meant 'knowledge' rather than 'truth'.