Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding: A Critical ExpositionDewey, John
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Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding: A Critical Exposition
Dewey, John
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716
It is the Monad _as Passive_ 162
Space and Time connect the Spiritual and the Sensible 164
Distinction between Space and Time, and Extension and Duration 166
Space and Time are Relations 167
Leibniz's Controversy with Clarke 168
Leibniz denies that Space and Time are Absolute 170
What is the Reality of Sensible Phenomena? 173
It consists
(1) In their Regularity 174
(2) In their Dependence upon Intelligence and Will 175
Leibniz and Berkeley 177
CHAPTER IX.
Some Fundamental Conceptions.
Locke's Account of Substance as Static 179
The Distinction between Reality and Phenomena 180
Leibniz's Conception of Substance as Dynamic 181
His Specific Criticisms upon Locke 182
The Categories of Identity and Difference Locke also explains in
a Mechanical Way 183
Leibniz regards them as Internal and as Organic to each other 184
Locke gives a Quantitative Notion of Infinity 188
And hence makes our Idea of it purely Negative 189
Leibniz denies that the True Notion of Infinity is Quantitative 189
He also denies Locke's Account of the Origin of the Indefinite 192
In General, Locke has a Mechanical Idea, Leibniz a Spiritual, of
these Categories 193
CHAPTER X.
The Nature and Extent of Knowledge.
Locke's Definition and Classification of Knowledge 196
Leibniz's Criticism 197
Leibniz, Berkeley, and Kant regarding Knowledge of Objects 198
The Degrees of Knowledge,--Intuitive, Demonstrative, and
Sensitive 199
Locke's Contradictory Theories regarding the Origin of Knowledge 202
Locke starts both with the Individual as given to Consciousness
and with the Unrelated Sensation 204
Either Theory makes Relations or "Universals" Unreal 205
As to the Extent of Knowledge, that of Identity is Wide, but
Trifling 205
That of Real Being includes God, Soul, and Matter, but only as to
their Existence 206
And even this at the Expense of contradicting his Definition of
Knowledge 206
Knowledge of Co-existence is either Trifling or Impossible 207
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