His name is sometimes appended to the principle of the identity of indiscernibles.
This thinker kept up a correspondence with Samuel Clarke until his death, and he claimed that we formulate perceptions subconsciously, which he called petites perceptions. This man claimed that a concept carries with it all of its relations to other concepts, which he called the doctrine of marks and traces. His name is sometimes appended to the principle of the identity of indiscernibles. This thinker, who satirized a John Locke title in his New Essays on Human Understanding and wrote the Theodicy, believed that everything was made up of entities that have unity, harmony, and the capacity for action. He drew harsh criticism from Voltaire, who satirized him as Dr. Pangloss in Candide. For 10 points, name this German thinker who believed in the power of monads and who developed calculus independently of Isaac Newton.
This thinker kept up a correspondence with Samuel Clarke until his death, and he claimed that we formulate perceptions subconsciously, which he called petites perceptions.
Gottfried Leibniz