Full Idea
Leibniz seems never to have made up his mind completely on how to accommodate bodies within a metaphysic which recognises only soul-like entities as fully real.
Gist of Idea
Leibniz struggled to reconcile bodies with a reality of purely soul-like entities
Source
comment on Gottfried Leibniz (works [1690]) by Nicholas Jolley - Leibniz Intro
Book Reference
Jolley,Nicholas: 'Leibniz' [Routledge 2005], p.10
A Reaction
[The soul-like entities are his 'monads']. His choice must be to either say they are unreal, or that they are real and separate from the monads, or that they are a manifestation of the monads. His problem, not mine.