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Episode 6: Leibniz’s Monadology: What Is There?

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Principle of Harmony

The principle of harmony seems to make the world a sort of matrix situation where all these windowless monads have coordinated stories projected onto their inner theaters. So Leidenitz in this reading for instance says that a monad isn't in a body. It's associated with a body because its perceptions happen to be clear and distinct in relation to that body. But at the same time, he has this principle of, you know, all scientists try to follow Occam's razor, trying to say that the simplest theory is the best theory.

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