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PHILOSOPHY AS A SYSTEM OF CONDITIONALS
PHILOSOPHY AS A SYSTEM OF CONDITIONALS

Author(s): Edward Nieznański
Subject(s): Logic, Early Modern Philosophy, Methodology and research technology, 18th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
Keywords: Leibniz; theodicy; supposition; conditionals;

Summary/Abstract: Philosophical statements are often suppositions. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz proposes in Nouveaux Essais sur l’entendement humain, 1704, a method of the construction of assertive conditionals occurring between any philosophical suppositions. If we can infer a philosophical statement from any suppositions then the implication between these suppositions and the obtained statement is assertive. In the article, some examples of the application of Leibniz’s method are considered.

  • Issue Year: 56/2020
  • Issue No: S1
  • Page Range: 87-95
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English
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