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8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations

19383	A man's distant wife dying is a real change in him [Leibniz]
	Full Idea: No one can become a widower in India because of the death of his wife in Europe unless a real change occurs in him.
	From: Gottfried Leibniz (Letters to Burcher De Volder [1706], GP ii 240), quoted by Richard T.W. Arthur - Leibniz 7 'Nominalist'
	A reaction: This is Leibniz heroically denying so-called 'Cambridge Change'. It is hard to see how a widower is changed if he has not yet heard the bad news. But his situation in life has changed. Compare eudaimonia, which you can lose without realising it.