Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Belonging, due, or according to the German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz (1646–1716).
- noun A follower of Leibnitz; in mathematics, an early student of the infinitesimal calculus.
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- adjective of or relating to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz or to his mathematics or philosophy
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Fechner tries sincerely to grapple with the problem of evil, but he always solves it in the leibnitzian fashion by making his God non-absolute, placing him under conditions of 'metaphysical necessity' which even his omnipotence cannot violate.
A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy William James 1876
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