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Leibniz's Principle of Identity of Indiscernibles (Paperback)
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Leibniz's Principle of Identity of Indiscernibles (Paperback)
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Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra presents an original study of the place
and role of the Identity of Indiscernibles in Leibniz's philosophy.
The Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles rules out
numerically distinct but perfectly similar things; Leibniz derived
it from more basic principles and used it to establish important
philosophical theses. Rodriguez-Pereyra aims to establish what
Leibniz meant by the Principle of Identity of Indiscernibles, what
his arguments for and from it were, and to assess those arguments
and Leibniz's claims about the Principle of Identity of
Indiscernibles. He argues that Leibniz had a very strong version of
the principle, according to which no possibilia (whether or not
they belong to the same possible world) are intrinsically perfectly
similar, where this excludes things that differ in magnitude alone.
The book discusses Leibniz's arguments for the Identity of
Indiscernibles in the Meditation on the Principle of the
Individual, the Discourse on Metaphysics, Notationes Generales,
Primary Truths, the letter to Casati of 1689, the correspondence
with Clarke, as well as the use of the Identity of Indiscernibles
in Leibniz's arguments against the Cartesian conception of the
material world, atoms, absolute space and time, the Lockean
conception of the mind as a tabula rasa, and freedom of
indifference. Rodriguez-Pereyra argues that the Identity of
Indiscernibles was a central but inessential principle of Leibniz's
philosophy.
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