It is this way that in mathematics speculative theorems and practical canons are reduced by analysis to definitions, axioms and postulates.
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When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.Gottfried Leibniz
But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
Gottfried Leibniz
And as every state of a simple substance is a natural consequence of its preceding state, so that the present state of it is big with the future.
Gottfried Leibniz
Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.
Gottfried Leibniz
For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.
Gottfried Leibniz
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