Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz:

All the different classes of beings which taken together make up the universe are, in the ideas of God who knows distinctly their essential gradations, only so many ordinates of a single curve so closely united that it would be impossible to place others between any two of them, since that would imply disorder and imperfection.

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Early Modern

Calculus, optimism

Context

Related to Principle of Plenitude/Continuity, possibly 'The Principles of Nature and Grace'

Date / Period

c. 1714

Source

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Verification

Unverifiable

Explanation

Found in 1 providers: gemini

Method

Cross Reference

Sources Checked

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