Sublime

Leibniz was a firm believer in the importance of logic, not only in its own sphere, but as the basis of metaphysics. He did work on mathematical logic which would have been enormously important if he had published it; he would, in that case, have been the founder of mathematical logic, which would have become known a century and a half sooner than

Leibniz, comme de l’« intelligible confus », c’est-à-dire comme une illusion de l’imagination. Car, sans la réconciliation de l’Absolu et du relatif, de l’objectif et du subjectif, l’homme lui paraît voué non seulement à la finitude, mais à une « incomplétude » radicale qui le voue à une tragique et définitive

Leibniz’s Argument

Einstein invented everything he was ever going to invent by the age of 25. The rest of his life was spent in a futile chase to find a force he couldn’t find called the Fifth Force—the unifying force.

The difference of method, here, may be characterized as follows: In Locke or Hume, a comparatively modest conclusion is drawn from a broad survey of many facts, whereas in Leibniz a vast edifice of deduction is pyramided upon a pin-point of logical principle.