LEİBNİZ VE MCTAGGART'IN CEVHERİN BİRLİĞİ SORUNUNA YAKLAŞIMLARI

Year 2003, Issue: 38, 93 - 106, 15.12.2003

Aliye Kovanlıkaya

Abstract

McTaggart's and Leibniz's Approaches to the Unity of Substance

Abstract

For McTaggart, existence can be classified into three categories: substance, quality and relation. Neither one of these can be reduced to one another. Substance, in such a framework, is described as that which has characteristics i.e., qualities and relations without itself being a characteristic. McTaggart claims that every substance is a whole that is differentiated into infinite number of parts each of which is again a substance. The substance that has all other substances as its parts is Universe and there is no simple substance. Each substance is

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