A Collection of Papers, Which Passed Between the Late Learned Mr. Leibnitz, and Dr. Clarke, in the Years 1715 and 1716; Relating to the Principles O (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1717 edition. Excerpt: ...le monde plustoit, /"/ faut se bien entendre. Comme say demontre que le Temps sans les Choses n eTi autre chose qu une simple possibilite ideale jl eil manifeste que si quelqii un difoit que ce meme ' monde that I ought not to admit a moveahle Universe nor any Place oat of the material Universe. 54. I am not sensible of any objection, but what I think I have sufficiently answered. As for the objection that Space and Time are Quantities, or rather things endowed with Quantity and that Situation and Order are not so: I answer, that Order also has it? Qnaritity-, There is in it, that which goes before, and that which follows j There is Distance or Interval. 'Relative things have their Quantity-, -js well as absolute ones. For instance, Ratios or Proportions in Mathematicks, have their Quantity, and are measured by Logarithms j and yet they are Relations. And. therefore though Time and Space consist in Relations, yet they have their Quantity. Mi/.. 55. As to the Question, Whether God could have created the World sooner j 'tis necessary hereto understand eachoiher rightly. Since I have demonstnted, that Time, without Things, is nothing else but a mere ideal Possibility j 'tis manifest, if any one should fay that this Same World, which P 4 has L monde qui a ete cree effeBivement, sans aucun autre changement ait pu etre cree plustost, il ne dira rien d intelligible. Car il n y a aucune marque ou difference, par laquelle il seroit possible de connoiftre qu'il eut ete cree plustost. Ainsi, comme je V ay deja dit, supposer que Dieu ait cree le meme monde plustost, est supposer quelque chose de...