PHILOSOPHY AS A SYSTEM OF CONDITIONALS
PHILOSOPHY AS A SYSTEM OF CONDITIONALS
Author(s): Edward NieznańskiSubject(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.
Journal: Studia Philosophiae Christianae
- Issue Year: 56/2020
- Issue No: S1
- Page Range: 87-95
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English