Leibnitzian
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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All this is doled out as solemnly as a lantern-slide lecture in German philosophy, with the actors uneasily unsure whether they are really U.S. dirt farmers, by cracky, or Leibnitzian particles in a transcendental ether.
From Time Magazine Archive
The former distinguishes between ratio essendi and ratio cognoscendi, rejects the ontological argument, and defends determinism against Crusius on Leibnitzian grounds.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard
Surely if, according to the poet’s Leibnitzian reasoning, we may infer that man ought to be, only because he is, we may allow that his place is the right place, because he has it.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel
The Leibnitzian monadology has really no better foundation than on this philosopher's mode of falsely representing the difference of the internal and external solely in relation to the understanding.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
He is a firm believer in the Leibnitzian law of continuity, and does not surpass the conclusions of Baumgarten.
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto
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