9780300205053-0300205058-The Labyrinth of the Continuum: Writings on the Continuum Problem, 1672-1686 (The Yale Leibniz Series)

The Labyrinth of the Continuum: Writings on the Continuum Problem, 1672-1686 (The Yale Leibniz Series)

ISBN-13: 9780300205053
ISBN-10: 0300205058
Edition: Reprint
Author: G. W. Leibniz, Richard T.W. Arthur
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback 484 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780300205053
ISBN-10: 0300205058
Edition: Reprint
Author: G. W. Leibniz, Richard T.W. Arthur
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback 484 pages

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The Labyrinth of the Continuum: Writings on the Continuum Problem, 1672-1686 (The Yale Leibniz Series) (ISBN-13: 9780300205053 and ISBN-10: 0300205058), written by authors G. W. Leibniz, Richard T.W. Arthur, was published by Yale University Press in 2013. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other Modern (Philosophy) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Labyrinth of the Continuum: Writings on the Continuum Problem, 1672-1686 (The Yale Leibniz Series) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Modern books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.84.

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This book gathers together for the first time an important body of texts written between 1672 and 1686 by the great German philosopher and polymath Gottfried Leibniz. These writings, most of them previously untranslated, represent Leibniz’s sustained attempt on a problem whose solution was crucial to the development of his thought, that of the composition of the continuum.

The volume begins with excerpts from Leibniz’s Paris writings, in which he tackles such problems as whether the infinite division of matter entails “perfect points,” whether matter and space can be regarded as true wholes, whether motion is truly continuous, and the nature of body and substance. Comprising the second section is Pacidius Philalethi,Leibniz’s brilliant dialogue of late 1676 on the problem of the continuity of motion. In the selections of the final section, from his Hanover writings of 1677–1686, Leibniz abandons his earlier transcreationism and atomism in favor of the theory of corporeal substance, where the reality of body and motion is founded in substantial form or force.

Leibniz’s texts (one in French, the rest in Latin) are presented with facing-page English translations, together with an introduction, notes, appendixes containing related excerpts from earlier works by Leibniz and his predecessors, and a valuable glossary detailing important terms and their translations.

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