When A Truth Is Necessary, The Reason For It Can Be Found By Analysis, That Is, By Resolving It Into Simpler Ideas And Truths Until The Primary Ones Are Reached. It Is This Way That In Mathematics Speculative Theorems And Practical Canons Are Reduced By Analysis To Definitions, Axioms And Postulates.

-Gottfried Leibniz

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When A Truth Is Necessary, The Reason

Gottfried Leibniz

When A Truth Is Necessary, The Reason For It Can Be Found By Analysis, That Is, By Resolving It Into Simpler Ideas And Truths Until The Primary Ones Are Reached. It Is This Way That In Mathematics Speculative Theorems And Practical Canons Are Reduced By Analysis To Definitions, Axioms And Postulates.

Topic

Ideas

Words Of Wisdom

Analysis

All The Different Classes Of Beings Which Taken Together Make Up The Universe Are, In The Ideas Of God Who Knows Distinctly Their Essential Gradations, Only So Many Ordinates Of A Single Curve So Closely United That It Would Be Impossible To Place Others Between Any Two Of Them, Since That Would Imply Disorder And Imperfection. Thus Men Are Linked With The Animals, These With The Plants And These With The Fossils Which In Turn Merge With Those Bodies Which Our Senses And Our Imagination Represent To Us As Absolutely Inanimate.

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Animal

Men