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  • adjective Of or relating to the philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

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Leibniz +‎ -ian

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Examples

  • Even if God did plan it all knowing that the Jesus events would make for the best of all possible worlds -- to use the Leibnizian phrase -- you still have the question about Adam and Eve.

    Michael Ruse: Original Sin, Evolution and Human Origins Michael Ruse 2011

  • The novella begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply optimism) by his tutor, Pangloss.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • The novella begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply optimism) by his tutor, Pangloss.

    Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • Even if God did plan it all knowing that the Jesus events would make for the best of all possible worlds -- to use the Leibnizian phrase -- you still have the question about Adam and Eve.

    Michael Ruse: Original Sin, Evolution and Human Origins Michael Ruse 2011

  • Benjamin's career as a Leibnizian idealist reached its peak and breaking point in his formulation of the guiding principles of The Origin of the German

    Club Monad 2008

  • Nothing therefore exists, according to Leibnizian metaphysics, but an endless series of immanent representations coordinated among the infinity of monads — though the term

    Club Monad 2008

  • But did early “modern” logicians like Boole, Schröder, or Frege have any knowledge of Leibnizian logic, i.e., could Leibniz have had any influence on these pioneers of modern logic?

    Leibniz's Influence on 19th Century Logic Peckhaus, Volker 2009

  • Erdmann's edition of the philosophical works and Trendelenburg's presentation of Leibniz's semiotics were the most important steps towards the further reception of Leibnizian ideas among mathematical logicians at the end of the 19th century.

    Leibniz's Influence on 19th Century Logic Peckhaus, Volker 2009

  • Given Trendelenburg's special emphasis in presenting the Leibnizian system, his significance for the mathematical reception of Leibniz's ideas in the context of the emergence of formal mathematics and mathematical logic in the second half of the 19th century is astonishing.

    Leibniz's Influence on 19th Century Logic Peckhaus, Volker 2009

  • Nor did the Leibnizian method of differentials escape Berkeley's strictures.

    Continuity and Infinitesimals Bell, John L. 2009

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