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RENAISSANCE AND SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY RATIONALISM 381
RB
P.Remnant and J.Bennett (trans. and eds) G.W.Leibniz: New
Essays on Human Understanding (Cambridge, 1981)
I have generally followed the cited translations; any significant modifications are
indicated in the notes.
NOTES
1 See, for example, NE IV.viii, A VI.vi, RB 431.
2 Leibniz to Remond, 10 January 1714, G III 607.
3 See J.Bennett, A Study of Spinoza’s Ethics (Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press, 1984), pp. 55–6.
4 Aristotle, Categories, ch. 5, 43.
5 Discourse on Metaphysics 8, G IV 432, L 307.
6 ibid., G IV 433, L 307.
7 Leibniz to Arnauld, 30 April 1687, G II 96–7, MP 121.
8 Sleigh [11.27], 123.
9 cf. Bennett, op. cit., p. 58.
10 Leibniz to Arnauld, 30 April 1687, G II 100–1, MP 126.
11 Strictly speaking, for Descartes, there is only one body or extended substance: the
entire physical universe.
12 See Sleigh [11.27], 98–101.
13 See Broad [11.29], 49–51.
14 Leibniz to Arnauld, 30 April 1687, G II 101, MP 126.
15 Arnauld to Leibniz, 4 March 1687, G II 86, MP 107.
16 Leibniz to Arnauld, 30 April 1687, G II 97, MP 121.
17 Arnauld to Leibniz, 4 March 1687, G II 87–8, MP 109.
18 Leibniz to Arnauld, 30 April 1687, G II 100, MP 125–6.
19 Discourse on Metaphysics 8, G IV 433, L 307.
20 Russell [11.38]; Couturat [11.43]; Couturat [11.44],
21 ‘First Truths’, C 521, L 269. (Translation modified.)
22 See, for example, M.Ayers, ‘Analytical Philosophy and the History of Philosophy’,
in J.Rée, M.Ayers and A.Westoby, Philosophy and its Past (Brighton, Harvester,
1978), p. 45. See also B.Brody, ‘Leibniz’s Metaphysical Logic’, in Kulstad [11.
34], 43–55.
23 Aristotle, Metaphysics 1011 b 27.
24 Leibniz to Arnauld, 14 July 1686, G II 56, MP 63.
25 As Arnauld noted (Arnauld to Leibniz, 13 March 1686, G II 15, MP 9), these
remarkable doctrines of Leibniz’s logic raise a number of puzzles concerning
freedom and contingency. On these see, for example, Sleigh [11.27].
26 Discourse on Metaphysics 9, G IV 433, L 308.
27 Leibniz’s Fourth Paper to Clarke, G VII 372, L 687.
28 See Parkinson [11.58], 6–8.
29 Leibniz to Arnauld, 9 October 1687, G II 112, MP 144.
30 Discourse on Metaphysics 8, G IV 433, L 308. (Translation modified.)
31 See Broad [11.29], 24–5.