Lexicon of Arguments

 

Holz I 49/50
World/"Chain"/Theory/Explanation/Leibniz: a theory of the world must (...) be formulated as a chain of sentences, which can be reduced by the last term ascending to identical sentences (A = B).
>World/Leibniz, >Order/Leibniz, >Justification/Leibniz.
I 50
Predicate/"chain of proofs"/proof/Leibniz: therefore the predicate or the following is always inhabiting the subject or the preceding.
>Proof/Leibniz.
The very first term needs not to be proved, for to prove is nothing but to trace back a proposition to a simple identical one. It can therefore not be proved at all.
108/109
Predicates/Substances/Leibniz: Logical, ontological double sense:
A) the real correspondence of the predicates, which can be expressed by a substance
B) the properties which substances must have in order that they are beings.
>Substance/Leibniz.
Holz: Leibniz has to trace this back to the self-sufficiency of the substances.
Everything that happens to the soul and every substance is a consequence of its concept. The perceptions arise spontaneously from their own nature. > Spontaneity.
The soul expresses in a certain manner, for a definite time, the state of the universe according to the relations of the other bodies to it. ("Windowlessness" of the monads).
>Concept/Leibniz.