Bolzano's Monadology.

Bernard Bolzano (1781–1848), 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 monadolo...

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Publicado en:British Journal for the History of Philosophy Vol. 23; no. 6; pp. 1074 - 1085
Autor principal: Simons, Peter
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec2015
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Sumario:Bernard Bolzano (1781–1848), 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.