| 1936
understand who is completely emerged in the
state of mind of modern philosophy. Zeller,
for example, does not seize it, at all.
But let us drop metaphysics and return to logic.
It was Hobbes who first said, referring to and
combatting Aristotle's doctrine “Men commonly call that
casual whereof they do not perceive the necessary
cause,” for Hobbes was a typical stoic in his philosophy.
Leibniz emphatically agrees with Hobbes “Fort
bien,” he says. “J'y consens, si l'on entend
parler d'un hazard réel. Car la fortune et
le hazard ne sont que des apparences, qui viennent
de l'ignorance des causes, ou de l'abstraction qu'on
en fait.” This has been said a thousand times
since with an air as if it explained the whole thing. | 1936
understand who is completely emerged in the state of mind of modern philosophy.
Later, for example, does not seize it, at all.
But let us drop metaphysics and return to logic.
It was Hobbes who first said, men refering to and combattingAristotle's doctrine "Men commonly call that [u]casual[/u] where of thy do not perceive the necessary cause," for Hobbes was a typical stoic in his philosophy.
Leibniz emphatically agrees with Hobbes "Fort bien," he says "I'y consens, si l'on entend parler d'un hazard re'el.
Car la fortune et le hazard ne sont que des apparences, qui vien neut de l'ignorance des causes, ou de l'abstraction qu'on en fact."
This has been said a thousand times since with an air as if it explained the whole thing. |