Acta Structuralica

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Introduction to part two

pp. 133-142

Abstract

"Now as to thought," says Leibniz in a famous passage in the Preface to the New Essays, "it is certain ‖ that it could not be an intelligible modification of matter or one that could be comprised therein and explained; that is to say, that the feeling or thinking being is not a mechanical thing like a clock or a mill." And, indeed, if one were to enter such a machine, one would find but "sizes, figures, and motions"1 but nothing that resembles a consciousness.

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Trần Dức Thảo (1986) Phenomenology and dialectical materialism. Dordrecht, Reidel.

Pages: 133-142

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-5191-4_5

Full citation:

(1986) Introduction to part two, In: Phenomenology and dialectical materialism, Dordrecht, Reidel, 133–142.