Leibniz : Perception, Apperception, and Thought / Robert McRae.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McRae, Robert, Author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm.

Perception.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (159 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book attempts to give coherence to the elements of Leibniz's epistemology by seeking to determine what he meant when, on three occasions and each time without explanation, he said that thought and the faculty of understanding are the products of the conjoining of apperception and perception.

Contents:

Cover; ABBREVIATIONS; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 DESCARTES AND LOCKE; 3 PERCEPTION; Perception as Expression; Sensation; Apperception; Distinct Perceptions; Memory; The Cause of Perceptions; Perception, or Expression, as Action; 4 THOUGHT; The Primary Classification of Concepts; Leibniz's Terminology; Clear Ideas; Distinct Ideas; Complete Concepts; Incomplete or Abstract Concepts; Metaphysical Concepts; The Innateness of Metaphysical Concepts; The Innateness of Mathematical Concepts; The Two Great Principles; Axioms or Principles Grounded on the Principle of Contradiction

Architectonic Principles and Other Teleological Principles Grounded on the Principle of Sufficient ReasonInnate Principles and Truths; 5 UNDERSTANDING AND SENSIBILITY; Difference of Degree or of Kind?; The Necessity of the Senses to Thought; Phenomena

Notes:

Reprinted in 2018.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

1-4875-7977-2

OCLC:

1153509215