The statement that objects that share all properties are identical is this thinker's principle of the identity of indiscernibles.
The statement that objects that share all properties are identical is this thinker's principle of the identity of indiscernibles. This thinker argued against the Cartesian account of substances by noting that matter is divisible, and wrote that since substances cannot interact, God has established mind and body in a "pre-established harmony." In his argument that a substance expresses the whole universe, this philosopher developed the idea of "petits perceptions," found in a book in which he represented himself as Theophilius and John Locke as Philalethe. He claimed that extension can only arise from things without extension, posting a single type of substantial form that is simple and indivisible. For 10 points, name this German philosopher who wrote New Essays on Human Understanding, Theodicy, and Monadology, the inspiration of Pangloss in Voltaire's Candide.
The statement that objects that share all properties are identical is this thinker's principle of the identity of indiscernibles.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz