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Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding
14 chapters, about 67,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.
Chapters
- Chapter 1 100 words
- PREFACE. 200 words
- THE MAN. 4,700 words
- THE SOURCES OF HIS PHILOSOPHY. 5,800 words
- THE PROBLEM, AND ITS SOLUTION. 5,800 words
- LOCKE AND LEIBNIZ.--INNATE IDEAS. 4,800 words
- SENSATION AND EXPERIENCE. 5,300 words
- THE IMPULSES AND THE WILL. 5,500 words
- MATTER AND ITS RELATION TO SPIRIT. 4,900 words
- MATERIAL PHENOMENA AND THEIR REALITY. 7,000 words
- SOME FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTIONS. 4,100 words
- THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF KNOWLEDGE. 6,800 words
- THE THEOLOGY OF LEIBNIZ. 3,900 words
- CRITICISM AND CONCLUSION. 8,100 words
Ideas discussed in this book
- Atom
- Essay
- Extension (metaphysics)
- Harmony
- Identity (social science)
- Inertia
- Infinity (philosophy)
- Knowledge
- Matter
- Nature (philosophy)
- Noumenon
- Principle of sufficient reason
- Quantity
- Scientific demonstration
- Self-consciousness
- Sophia (journal)
- Sophia (wisdom)
- Vacuum
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