What I’ve learned from the early moderns

Synthese 196 (9):3465-3481 (2019)
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Original explorers often see a puzzling conceptual landscape more vividly than jaded later travelers. This essay surveys several ways in which Descartes and Leibniz recognized descriptive problems within applied mathematics more clearly than later commentators have appreciated.

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Discourse on metaphysics.Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - 2007 - In Aloysius Martinich, Fritz Allhoff & Anand Vaidya (eds.), Philosophy. Blackwell. pp. 81-84.

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