How Matter Might First be Made

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Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 4:1 (1978)
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In the fourth book of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Locke hints that he could explain how God may have created matter ex nihilo, but refrains from doing so. Leibniz, when he came upon this passage, pricked up his ears. There ensued a sequence of personal events which are not without charm and piquancy, and a sequence of philosophical events which are of some interest. In this paper we tell the tale.

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10.1080/00455091.1978.10717078

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