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15 octobre 2021
- doi: 10.4000/books.pup.53625
- isbn: 9782853999762
- eisbn: 9791036576850
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van Atten Mark, « Monads and Sets. On Gödel, Leibniz, and the Reflection Principle », Presses universitaires de Provence, ID : 10.4000/books.pup.53625
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Voor Göran, in dank en vriendschap Introduction Gödel described his general philosophical theory to Hao Wang as “a monadology with a central monad [...] like the monadology of Leibniz in its general structure” (Wang 1996: 0.2.1). At the same time, he believed that Cantorian set theory is a true theory, which describes some “well-determined reality” (Gödel 1990: 181). I will first discuss the embedding of Cantorian set theory in a Leibnizian metaphysics that the combination of these two belief...