Vernünftige Gedanken

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  • Wolff, Christian, freiherr von
    In Christian, baron von Wolff

    …all beginning under the title Vernünftige Gedanken (“Rational Ideas”) covered many subjects and expounded Leibniz’s theories in popular form. Wolff emphasized that every occurrence must have an adequate reason for happening or there arises the impossible alternative that something might come out of nothing. He applied the thought of the…

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