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“These principles have given me a way of explaining naturally the union or rather the mutual agreement [conformité] of the soul and the organic body. The soul follows its own laws, and the body likewise follows its own laws; and they agree with each other in virtue of the pre-established harmony between all substances, since they are all representations of one and the same universe.”

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Gottfried Leibniz
Gottfried Leibniz

German mathematician, philosopher, historian, and inventor. Gottfried Leibniz is one of the founders of calculus and has made significant contributions to mathematics, philosophy, history, and other fields. more

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