Philosophy A-Level
Leibniz and necessary truths
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The argument that because experience cannot supply universal necessity, the capacity for truths that could not be otherwise must be innate.
Topics that use Leibniz and necessary truths
- Reason as a source of knowledge (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- A priori knowledge of existence
- Certainty and foundationalism
- Copy principle
- Empiricism
- Hume's Fork
- Intuition
- Plato's theory of recollection
- Proof of the external world
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