Hi Stephen P. King
God isn't artificially inserted into L's metaphysics,
it's a necessary part, because everything else (the monads)
afre blind and passive. Just as necessary as the One is to Plato's metaphysics.
[Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net]
12/5/2012
"Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen
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From: Stephen P. King
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Time: 2012-12-05, 06:45:25
Subject: Re: a paper on Leibnizian mathematical ideas
On 12/5/2012 5:15 AM, Roger Clough wrote:
> Hi Stephen P. King
> I don't recall ever finding a mistake in Leibniz's metaphysics,
Dear Roger,
I found his need to appeal to God to solve the PEH problem to be a
big mistake, but at least he had a good excuse and did work out many of
the needed ideas of computation theory...
> although
> there is a serious shortcoming in not completely defining what a
> substance is.
Yes, "substance" is the universal solvent of the time. Nowadays we
have Higgs bosons and Dark matter... same shit, different label.
> How far down the scale of maginification must or can
> or should one go ?
As far down (and up!) as necessary to get to a level where one has
structure that requires a different set of representations. Think of how
at the molecular level one no longer has a physic of pressure and
temperature, but one of van der Waals forces...
> Leibniz seems to invite study, as he appearsd to have provided, not
> a thoroughly worked out metaphysics, but a toolkit (the monadology)
> for you to work it out yourself.
What impresses me the most about the monadology is that it presents
a completely different mereological (relations between wholes and parts)
system than the "atoms in a void" paradigm. Additionally, it gives an
alternative to the usual "innate property" idea with its relationalism.
I see in Leibniz' the first glimmerings of Non-Well Founded sets.
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Onward!
Stephen
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