Fascinating! I’m a retard for asking, but would you mind letting me know the reference of footnotes 10-11 in Denneny’s dissertation—where Leibniz apparently defended the je ne se quoi against Malebranche? (A small thing, but it would have been important in my own long-ago abandoned dissertation.)
Art is simultaneously clear and confused (fused). As is friendship. Yay, Blake!
I assure you no one is more ignorant about the 'philosophical' parts of this stuff than me--I've never read Leibniz and only vaguely remember the windmill of monads from college... Denneny sends the reader to Leibniz's Discourse on Metaphysics where L invokes a "je ne scay quoi" (with the older spelling), and to a German article by Erich Hasse "Zur Bedeutung von 'Je ne sais quoi'" (1956)... If you have a recommendation for a painless entry into those early modern debates, I'd certainly take it!
Alas, the institutional gatekeepers have insured that there's no painless entry. The monads are truly windowless (and can't even reflect one another anymore).
Fascinating! I’m a retard for asking, but would you mind letting me know the reference of footnotes 10-11 in Denneny’s dissertation—where Leibniz apparently defended the je ne se quoi against Malebranche? (A small thing, but it would have been important in my own long-ago abandoned dissertation.)
Art is simultaneously clear and confused (fused). As is friendship. Yay, Blake!
I assure you no one is more ignorant about the 'philosophical' parts of this stuff than me--I've never read Leibniz and only vaguely remember the windmill of monads from college... Denneny sends the reader to Leibniz's Discourse on Metaphysics where L invokes a "je ne scay quoi" (with the older spelling), and to a German article by Erich Hasse "Zur Bedeutung von 'Je ne sais quoi'" (1956)... If you have a recommendation for a painless entry into those early modern debates, I'd certainly take it!
Thanks!
Alas, the institutional gatekeepers have insured that there's no painless entry. The monads are truly windowless (and can't even reflect one another anymore).