"With an appendix of leading passages."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ch. 1. Leibniz's premisses -- ch. 2. Necessary propositions and the law of contradiction -- ch. 3. Contingent propositions and the law of sufficient reason -- ch. 4. The conception of substance -- ch. 5. The identity of indiscernibles and the law of continuity, possibility and compossibility -- ch. 6. Why did Leibniz believe in an external world? -- ch. 7. The philosophy of matter : (a) as the outcome of the principles of dynamics -- ch. 8. The philosophy of matter (continued), (b) as explaining continuity and extension -- ch. 9. The labyrinth of the continuum -- ch. 10. The theory of space and time and its relation to monadism -- ch. 11. The nature of monads in general -- ch. 12. Soul and body -- ch. 13. Confused and unconscious perception -- ch. 14. Leibniz's theory of knowledge -- ch. 15. Proofs of the existence of God -- ch. 16. Leibniz's ethics.

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