On 9/7/2012 8:32 AM, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Stephen P. King
I solved this problem my own way by simply asssuming that the universe
from the beginning and before, as well as now and forever,
exists as an infinite collection of points (monads).
Hi Roger,
I agree with this.
So no problem
with the creation of new things.
No, novelty is not a priori definable, by its very definition it
cannot be considered to be given from the beginning! OTOH, we could
stipulate that novelty is a concept that only individual monads that are
not identical to each other can have, then novelty and "creation of new
things" in general can be seen in a logically consistent fashion as
local transient aspects and not pre-ordained or essence.
In principle they always were
and simply grow or unfold when the time calls for it, then
roll or fold up or whatever at the end of their useful lives.
Surely!
In this veiw of reality, all of reality always consists in monadic space
as an overlapping infinite set of points.
No, that is a contradiction of terms. Monads cannot be defined as
"an overlapping infinite set of points" because "points" by definition
have no extension and therefore can never overlap with each other. There
is no such thing as a "monadic space" which might act as a container of
multiple and distinct monads. Monads, as L defined them, cannot act or
exist in that manner. Frankly, L's speculations about the "exterior
aspects of Monads", found later on in his Monadology, papers, may be the
consequence of drinking too much wine as they are completely
inconsistent with his careful initial definitions of monads. We are all
finite and fallible, even geniuses like Leibniz. :-(
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Onward!
Stephen
http://webpages.charter.net/stephenk1/Outlaw/Outlaw.html
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