ITT: discuss monads

ITT: discuss monads

there are lots of them

yeah because this is the best of all possible worlds

How is it that a man smart enough to develop differential calculus and make so many breakthrough in physics was also so philosophically retarded? The same thing applies to Newton with his alchemy and astrology.

>How is it that a man smart enough to develop differential calculus and make so many breakthrough in physics was also so philosophically retarded?
pre-established harmony

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pretty much just a result of divine causation. there's a reason scientific development was stagnant while the church ruled Europe and didn't break free until Descartes and Galileo started separating the two

le dark ages meme

He was right about everything though

>believed God exists
>right about everything

This is the worst post I have seen on this board.

Are you retarded? His principle of sufficient reason and cosmological contingency argument for god are great theories of philsophy KYS

How Can Monads Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real

Reminder that Leibniz didn't believe in atoms or gravity

reminder that Newton was unable to identify the causal agent responsible for gravity and that atoms are literally unobservables

The point was that his philosophy prevented him from inferring things that a less intelligent man was able to.

They're like little tiny atoms which somewhat resemble geodesic polygons.

Each facet contains like the world reflected in it, sort of like a hologram.

>believing in a magical attraction between objects with mass.

And he was right not to. Newton's formulation of gravitational attraction entails action-at-a-distance, which, as Leibniz rightly points out, is pants on head retarded.

Are you aware that modern physics still uses Newtonian gravity and that we have only speculated about gravitons?

>modern physics still uses Newtonian gravity

It's used to simplify the process of deriving results on macro scales, as newtonian mechanics is approximately correct at that level, but philosophically and physically, it is not a true account of how the world functions and Leibniz was smart enough to understand that Newton's conception of "occult qualities" in nature posed a serious philosophical challenge to Newtonian metaphysics, something that Einstein later picked up on. Today, there are three competing notions:

1. Gravity is mediated by bosons (gravitons)
2. Gravity results from the curvature of the metric tensor
3. Gravity is a field

We currently do not possess the answer. One thing we do know is that it is not an unmediated force that acts instantaneously at a distance.

That unmediated force?

God's pre-established harmony

Precisely what it is not, as pre-established harmony relies on local causality in order to function. Every state depends on some other state local to it. Something cannot influence something else where it is not.

Does the concept of the monad have any practical or scientific value or is it just a historical curiosity cooked up by this brilliant oddball?

I guess you could call the hidden particles in the debroglie-bohm interpretation monads if you wanted to

I bet it's one of those ideas that seems useless but probably has some far-flung application in quantum mechanics or some other esoteric field.

this is about as far-fetched as Bohr calling mathematical symbols Platonic forms

I said if you really want to