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Leibniz: Perception


`There are a thousand signs which make us think that there are at all times an infinite number of perceptions in us, though without apperception and without reflexion'. Discuss. How can a finite being have infinitely many perceptions?


Readings

(Leibniz, 1990, Preface, chs. i-xii, xxiii, xxix)

(Adams, 1994, ch. 9)


Further readings

Leibniz (1969d)

(Leibniz, 1990, Letter to Lady Masham (May 1704))

(Adams, 1994, ch. 4, §2)

(Bennett, 1971, ch. III, §§11-12)



Sandy Berkovski