Full Idea
Lull restricted himself to only nine 'absolute principles' of God: goodness, greatness, eternity, power, wisdom, will, virtue, truth and glory
Gist of Idea
Nine principles of God: goodness, greatness, eternity, power, wisdom, will, virtue, truth and glory
Source
report of Ramon (Ars Magna [1305]) by Richard T.W. Arthur - Leibniz 2 'Combinatorics'
Book Reference
Arthur, Richard T.W.: 'Leibniz' [Polity 2014], p.34
A Reaction
Leibniz responded that God's perfections are infinite in number, and thus beyond human comprehension. Lull cut them down to nine, because he was designing a sort of conceptual logic that employed them.