discourse on metaphysicsの例文

• In his writing, " Discourse on Metaphysics ", Leibniz first establishes that God is an absolutely perfect being.
• Leibniz dated his beginning as a philosopher to his " Discourse on Metaphysics ", which he composed in 1686 as a commentary on a running dispute between Nicolas Malebranche and Antoine Arnauld.
• When Malebranche complained that his adversary had misunderstood him, Boileau silenced him with the question : " My dear sir, whom do you expect to understand you, if M . Arnauld does not ? " Next Arnauld was engaged in an extensive correspondence with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, regarding the latter's views detailed in his " Discourse on Metaphysics " ( 1686 ).
• Leibniz was an early critic of the distinction, writing in his 1686 " Discourse on Metaphysics " that " [ i ] t is even possible to demonstrate that the ideas of size, figure and motion are not so distinctive as is imagined, and that they stand for something imaginary relative to our perceptions as do, although to a greater extent, the ideas of color, heat, and the other similar qualities in regard to which we may doubt whether they are actually to be found in the nature of the things outside of us ."