PHILOS 25B Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: New Zealand National Rugby Union Team
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They cannot bear causal relations to each other. Their perceptions result from an internal principle. Most are not conscious: even the ones that are conscious have many perceptions that are unconscious. In a sense, monads are like isolated little world. A: leibniz says all monads are in harmony: articulated in discourse on metaphysics 14 and monadology 78, Minds have perceptions of the self, eternal truths, god, etc. A mind also has perceptions of the world beyond itself: not beyond as in outside , because that implies extension, and the world beyond is not extended. And the nature of monads was deduced earlier according to certain conditions they had to satisfy. Conceptual containment theory of truth: recall that leibniz thinks all the properties of a monad are essential to it, in 8 of discourse on metaphysics, leibniz articulates the following: Leibniz would say the concept of julius caesar implicitly contains the concept of crossing the rubicon.
