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12932 | The idea of being must come from our own existence [Leibniz] |
Full Idea: I would like to know how we could have the idea of being if we did not, as beings ourselves, find being within us. | |
From: Gottfried Leibniz (New Essays on Human Understanding [1704], 1.01) | |
A reaction: I could envisage a creature with an entirely 'externa' mind, that just focused on environment, and took its own place in it unthinkingly for granted. I suppose he's right, though. |