Example Sentences

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It’s an exceedingly cerebral comic novel about Leibnizian optimism translated from the German.

From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2020

In the previous century, Voltaire’s “Candide” had attacked what its author called “optimism”: the Leibnizian idea that all must be for the best in this best of all possible worlds.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2018

Its hero, Candide, is raised by a Leibnizian tutor, Dr. Pangloss, who maintains that our world is “the best of all possible worlds.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2018

The Derrida went like this: “In that sense it is the Aufhebung of other writings, particularly of hieroglyphic script and of the Leibnizian characteristic that had been criticized previously through one and the same gesture.”

From The New Yorker • May 31, 2010

In 1696, l’Hôpital’s Analyse des infiniment petits became the first textbook on calculus and introduced much of Europe to the Leibnizian version.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife