Mathesis quaedam divina
Matematica, cultura e società, Série 1, Tome 1 (2016) no. 3, pp. 189-207
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The title of my paper - which tries to sketch a global survey of Leibniz's intellectual activity - alludes to two very general inspiring ideas of his lifelong project of research: on one hand the convinction that all that exists in the world are concrete particular things, or individuals; on the other hand, the possibility of reconstructing a universal science by way of a combinatorics of concepts. In the first part I consider this combinatorial framework of the scientia generalis, where several particular research fields are developed and some formal tools are worked out. At the core of this project lies an intensive reflection on the relationship between thougth and sign, which is evident in Leibniz's logical and mathematical contributions. In the second and third part I consider the close link of these enquiries with Leibniz's work in the fields of the science of nature and some of his metaphysical views.
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Di Bella, Stefano. Mathesis quaedam divina. Matematica, cultura e società, Série 1, Tome 1 (2016) no. 3, pp. 189-207. http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/RUMI_2016_1_1_3_a1/