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mix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-11 08:12 PM
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Was Leibniz right?
Is this "the best of all possible worlds"?
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FiveGoodMen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-11 08:17 PM
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1. Certainly not.
It was better just a few decades ago.
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jobendorfer Donating Member (429 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-11 08:46 PM
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2. I don't know about that --
But his notation was sure a heck of a lot easier to understand than Newton's.

J.
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LuvNewcastle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-11 08:54 PM
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3. Voltaire didn't think so.
Anyone who believes such a thing is very pessimistic.
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originalpckelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-11 09:13 PM
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4. Hate you...
wanted to make the Voltaire reference first.
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LuvNewcastle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-11 10:49 PM
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6. ...
:7
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Davis_X_Machina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-11 09:46 PM
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5. He was right about the monads though...
...they don't have any windows -- I checked.
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