Wednesday, November 15, 2006

2.02 Objects are simple.


OK, but what does "simple" mean? They have both external and internal properties (2.01231) after all. Cf. Leibniz Monadology 1, where he says that simple means without parts.



Fahrnkopf (p. 42) writes: "The middle of the very first page of the text through the beginning of the third page, from 2.01 to 2.02, is devoted exclusively to setting out the radical idea that objects are essentially dependent, in that they are not merely a content but also a form."

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