Step into my old Porche Convertible for a long drive south to Hanover, Germany, 1,000 kilometers and a 100 years away. Let’s go meet Dr. Wilhelm Leibniz.
If you want someone to blame for the big zero you got on your beginning Calculus course, here’s the man.
Dr. Leibniz on his celebrated ‘Twin Truths’:
‘The immediate awareness of our existence and our thoughts furnishes us with the first a posteriori truths, or truths of Fact, the first experiences, while identical propositions embody the first a priori truths, or truths of Reason, the first illuminations.
Neither admits of proof and each may be called immediate.’
‘Transcendental Unity of Self-Consciousness’? ‘The immediate awareness of our existence and our thoughts’?
I am aware; I am immediately aware of being aware; I am immediately aware of being immediately aware…
It’s time to put-out the Meditation Mat.
No. We are not in the Himalayas amidst a mystical mountain-sect. Nor the corner of Haight and Ashbury. We are in Hanover, at the Study of Dr. Wilhelm von Leibniz, a founder of Modern Logic and the Mathematical Calculus.
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