Leibnitzian
Americanadjective
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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
We are abruptly plunged from a Baconian into a Leibnitzian atmosphere.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by Morley, John
Most people have heard of the 'Harmonie Pré-établie' of Leibnitz; it is borrowed without acknowledgment from Spinoza, and adapted to the Leibnitzian philosophy.
From Short Studies on Great Subjects by Froude, James Anthony
In the Leibnitzian theodicy the least satisfactory part is the justification of moral evil.
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
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