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De Principio Individui

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  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
    In Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Early life and education

    His baccalaureate thesis, De Principio Individui (“On the Principle of the Individual”), which appeared in May 1663, was inspired partly by Lutheran nominalism (the theory that universals have no reality but are mere names) and emphasized the existential value of the individual, who is not to be explained…

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