[Topoi Library] The Science of the Individual: Leibniz’s Ontology of Individual Substance Volume 6 || Conditions and Inherence: An Ontology for Predication

[Topoi Library] The Science of the Indiv

[Topoi Library] The Science of the Individual: Leibniz’s Ontology of Individual Substance Volume 6 || “Mira res, aliud esse subjectum quam formas seu attributa”

✍ Di Bella, Stefano; Bencivenga, Ermanno; Berthold-Bond, Daniel; Earle, William Ja 📂 Article 📅 2005 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English ⚖ 359 KB

In his well-known Discourse on Metaphysics, Leibniz puts individual substance at the basis of metaphysical building. In so doing, he connects himself to a venerable tradition. His theory of individual concept, however, breaks with another idea of the same tradition, that no account of the individual