phenomenalism

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• There are several ways in which Leibniz explains how the monadology leads to phenomenalism and what phenomenalism means (while his overall thinking on this topic is more complex).

  Academic text (2016)

• According to phenomenalism, we can only understand the world through our senses and perceptions.

• I don't know in what sense you can say that phenomenalism failed.

  Robinson Erhardt

• There are several ways in which Leibniz explains how the monadology leads to phenomenalism and what phenomenalism means (while his overall thinking on this topic is more complex).

  Academic text (2016)

• Interestingly enough, and more related to the topic (we have really digressed in these 100+ messages), LP was associated with a form of mental monism called "Phenomenalism."

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• In my view, the substantial bond should be read as an effort to construct an Aristotelian notion of extension, as an escape from phenomenalism, forged at the express demand of Des Bosses and for Des Bosses's dissertation.

  Academic text (2016)

• Des Bosses raises against himself the same objection he had raised against Leibnizian phenomenalism: if we hold that matter is composed of non-extended indivisibles, and nothing else, why would extension itself not be resolved into the same non-extended indivisibles?

  Academic text (2016)

• One of the recurring ideas in Leibniz's self-critique of his monadology in the correspondence with Des Bosses is that it leads to a non-extended world, that is, a world of appearances, idealism, or phenomenalism.

  Academic text (2016)

• In discussions of reality, some philosophers argue that phenomenalism implies we perceive objects only through our senses.

Synonyms

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phenomenism

vsphenomenalism

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The view that only things we sense exist and objects do not exist on their own

is the same idea but uses a different term form

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