Bolzano's Monadology

British Journal for the History of Philosophy 23 (6):1074-1084 (2015)
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Bernard Bolzano, known in his lifetime as ‘the Bohemian Leibniz’, is best known as a logician and mathematician, but he also developed a monadology in which the monads, which he called ‘atoms’, have spatial location and physical properties. This essay summarizes and assesses his monadology

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10.1080/09608788.2015.1055710

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Atomism and Fundamentality.Benjamin Schnieder - 2020 - Erkenntnis 85 (3):551-574.

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Das logische An-sich bei Bernard Bolzano.E. Morscher - 1975 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 37 (2):340-341.

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