LEIBNIZ AND THE IDEAL OF ADEQUATELY EXPRESSED GENERAL SCIENCE
LEIBNIZ AND THE IDEAL OF ADEQUATELY EXPRESSED GENERAL SCIENCE

Summary/Abstract: Being receptive at the epistemological debates which are at the centre of the concerns of the intellectual media of his time, Leibniz goes along with the current of ideas that propose to transform science into a means of theoretical research and aplicative vocation, which should offer impulse to the development of human knowledge, as a whole, too divided and restricted by old and unproductive thought patterns.With extraordinary initiatives, by its manner of holistic conceiving and sometimes of accomplishment as such, he triesto create a programme which will unite metaphysics (extending theology), mathematics and logics, which will supply the language of expression (characteristica universalis) and the means of accomplishment (calculus ratiocinator), conceived in sinergy.A project, even if rediscovered later in someof its underlying facets, through its achievements and remarcable promises, never ends to startle and fascinate the contemporary researchers who still have time to halt upon the sources, if not foundational, at least inspirational and reevaluating.

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