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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'Monadology' and 'Phenomenology of Spirit'

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3. Truth / D. Coherence Truth / 1. Coherence Truth
The true is the whole [Hegel]
     Full Idea: The true is the whole.
     From: Georg W.F.Hegel (Phenomenology of Spirit [1807], Pref 20)
     A reaction: This is the full idealist coherence view of truth, that one only approaches the Truth (capital T) as one builds up a more and more coherent picture. It makes truth unattainable, and that strikes me as a bit silly.
Everything in the universe is interconnected, so potentially a mind could know everything [Leibniz]
     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.
     From: Gottfried Leibniz (Monadology [1716], §61)