Re: a paper on Leibnizian mathematical ideas

2012-12-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Dec 2012, at 00:23, Stephen P. King wrote: On 12/7/2012 1:57 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Dec 2012, at 01:51, Stephen P. King wrote: On 12/5/2012 1:01 PM, Richard Ruquist wrote: L's monads have perception. They sense the entire universe. On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Roger

Re: a paper on Leibnizian mathematical ideas

2012-12-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Dec 2012, at 01:51, Stephen P. King wrote: On 12/5/2012 1:01 PM, Richard Ruquist wrote: L's monads have perception. They sense the entire universe. On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Stephen P. King God isn't artificially inserted into

Re: a paper on Leibnizian mathematical ideas

2012-12-07 Thread Stephen P. King
On 12/7/2012 1:57 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Dec 2012, at 01:51, Stephen P. King wrote: On 12/5/2012 1:01 PM, Richard Ruquist wrote: L's monads have perception. They sense the entire universe. On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Roger Cloughrclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Stephen P. King

Re: Re: a paper on Leibnizian mathematical ideas

2012-12-06 Thread Roger Clough
...@verizon.net] 12/6/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-12-05, 19:39:49 Subject: Re: a paper on Leibnizian mathematical ideas On 12/5/2012 12:45 PM, Roger Clough

Re: Re: a paper on Leibnizian mathematical ideas

2012-12-06 Thread Roger Clough
: everything-list Time: 2012-12-05, 22:05:16 Subject: Re: a paper on Leibnizian mathematical ideas On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net wrote: On 12/5/2012 8:17 PM, Richard Ruquist wrote: I thought we had already agreed that the string monads formed a Stone space

Re: a paper on Leibnizian mathematical ideas

2012-12-06 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net wrote: On 12/5/2012 10:05 PM, Richard Ruquist wrote: Monads are not strings. They are compactified dimensions and much smaller than strings which really are waves or fields. If monads were really outside of spacetime

Re: Re: a paper on Leibnizian mathematical ideas

2012-12-06 Thread Richard Ruquist
is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Richard Ruquist Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-12-05, 22:05:16 Subject: Re: a paper on Leibnizian mathematical ideas On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net

Re: a paper on Leibnizian mathematical ideas

2012-12-06 Thread Stephen P. King
On 12/6/2012 7:59 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King L's universe is a case of downward causation from the top (the One). So the top (the One) is absolutely necessary. You must be thinking of materialism, which causes upward from the bottom and is Godless and mindless, at least strictly

Re: a paper on Leibnizian mathematical ideas

2012-12-05 Thread Roger Clough
Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-12-03, 16:19:47 Subject: a paper on Leibnizian mathematical ideas Dear Roger and Friends, You might find this paper of some interest: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.7188 Leibniz's Laws of Continuity and Homogeneity Mikhail G. Katz, David Sherry

Re: a paper on Leibnizian mathematical ideas

2012-12-05 Thread Stephen P. King
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

Re: Re: a paper on Leibnizian mathematical ideas

2012-12-05 Thread Roger Clough
, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list 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

Re: Re: a paper on Leibnizian mathematical ideas

2012-12-05 Thread Richard Ruquist
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

Re: a paper on Leibnizian mathematical ideas

2012-12-05 Thread Stephen P. King
On 12/5/2012 12:45 PM, Roger Clough wrote: 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. Dear Roger, OK, it is just that

Re: a paper on Leibnizian mathematical ideas

2012-12-05 Thread Stephen P. King
On 12/5/2012 1:01 PM, Richard Ruquist wrote: L's monads have perception. They sense the entire universe. On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Roger Cloughrclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Stephen P. King God isn't artificially inserted into L's metaphysics, it's a necessary part, because everything

Re: a paper on Leibnizian mathematical ideas

2012-12-05 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net wrote: On 12/5/2012 1:01 PM, Richard Ruquist wrote: L's monads have perception. They sense the entire universe. On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Stephen P. King God isn't

Re: a paper on Leibnizian mathematical ideas

2012-12-05 Thread Stephen P. King
On 12/5/2012 8:17 PM, Richard Ruquist wrote: I thought we had already agreed that the string monads formed a Stone space in which the monads were totally distinctive.and therefore disconnected. It then becomes a Boolean algebra but at a vastly smaller scale than the atomic scale. Dear Richard,

Re: a paper on Leibnizian mathematical ideas

2012-12-05 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net wrote: On 12/5/2012 8:17 PM, Richard Ruquist wrote: I thought we had already agreed that the string monads formed a Stone space in which the monads were totally distinctive.and therefore disconnected. It then becomes a

Re: a paper on Leibnizian mathematical ideas

2012-12-05 Thread Stephen P. King
On 12/5/2012 10:05 PM, Richard Ruquist wrote: Monads are not strings. They are compactified dimensions and much smaller than strings which really are waves or fields. If monads were really outside of spacetime they would not influence anything in spacetime., Dear Richard, What are

a paper on Leibnizian mathematical ideas

2012-12-03 Thread Stephen P. King
Dear Roger and Friends, You might find this paper of some interest: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.7188 Leibniz's Laws of Continuity and Homogeneity Mikhail G. Katz, David Sherry (Submitted on 30 Nov 2012) We explore Leibniz's understanding of the differential calculus, and argue that his