Hi Roger,
OK, but I am a bit partial toward descriptions that allow for
something approximating a mathematical description, if only to make them
more intelligible in technical communications. The Swami's discussion is
more theological than anything else.
On 8/23/2012 1:18 PM, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Stephen P. King
It's from
http://www.swami-krishnananda.org/com/com_leib.html
and was just the first link that came up in Google.
Just Google on
monad
and a whole set of other links will pop up.
Roger Clough, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
8/23/2012
Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so
everything could function."
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Hi Roger,
What is this quote from? It is interesting! I don't quite
agree with it, as the centers are not all that a monad must
include for its definition...
On 8/23/2012 10:29 AM, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Stephen P. King
" Leibniz propounds a pluralistic metaphysical idealism by
reducing the reality of the universe to
centres of /force,/ which are all ultimately spiritual in their
nature. Every centre of force is a substance,
an individual, and is different from other centres of force. Such
centres of force, Leibniz calls monads.
These forces are unextended, not subject to division in space.
None, excepting, of course, God, can
destroy these monads, and so they are considered to be immortal
in essence. Though quantitatively, the monads a.."
Roger Clough, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
8/23/2012
Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so
everything could function."
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Onward!
Stephen
"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
~ Francis Bacon
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