This man argued for the reducibility of reasoning in his De Arte Combinatoria, and he argued that all movement was a byproduct of God in Hypothesis Physica Nova. He refuted the Cartesian view of matter by stating that only beings that can perform action can count as a substance. Voltaire lampooned this man's theory of optimism that this was the bes
This man argued for the reducibility of reasoning in his De Arte Combinatoria, and he argued that all movement was a byproduct of God in Hypothesis Physica Nova. He refuted the Cartesian view of matter by stating that only beings that can perform action can count as a substance. Voltaire lampooned this man's theory of optimism that this was the best of all possible worlds. For 10 points, name this German philosopher who wrote of monads in Theodicee and who also co-discovered Calculus.
This man argued for the reducibility of reasoning in his De Arte Combinatoria, and he argued that all movement was a byproduct of God in Hypothesis Physica Nova.