Re: dialectics, set theory, Leibniz [was Re: "Charles Brown"
Marxism-Thaxis Digest, Vol 32, Issue 9] (Ralph Dumain)
> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:28:30 -0400
>
> I can't make sense out of any of this post. I don't know what you are
> getting at by seeking out references to Leibniz by Marx.
>
> Engels refers to Leibniz at length in Dialectics of Nature. From Marx we
> get passing references of no particular consequence. Here's an odd stray
> remark:
<snip>
> Another passing reference to the monadology is in the Notes on Epicurus.
>
> Perhaps you are thinking of Marx's manuscripts on the calculus, where of
> course Leibniz would come into play. But I don't understanding what you
> are talking about anyway. I don't know what you mean by
>
Leibnitz did write a lot about "identity of indiscernibles". This can also be
seen as a dialectics of indiscernibility.
The other thing is are all of Marx's manuscripts published ?
> "discernability". This is the closest Marx gets that I can find:
Leibnitz usually kept his monads away from his more sensible work.
> >The classic expression which Leibniz gave to this old proposition (to be
> >found on the first page of any physics textbook as the theory of the
> >impenetrability of bodies) is well known:
> >However, every monad necessarily differs from every other; for in nature
> >there are never two things that exactly coincide with each other.
> >(Principia Philosophiae seu Theses, etc.)
> >Sanchos uniqueness is here reduced to a quality which he shares with
> >every louse and every grain of sand.
>
> http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch03o.htm
>
> But this is not very useful.
true
A. Mani
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