Was Leibniz right?
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Tue Jan-18-11 08:12 PM
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Is this "the best of all possible worlds"?
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| FiveGoodMen
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Tue Jan-18-11 08:17 PM
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It was better just a few decades ago.
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Tue Jan-18-11 08:46 PM
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| 2. I don't know about that -- |
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But his notation was sure a heck of a lot easier to understand than Newton's.
J.
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Tue Jan-18-11 08:54 PM
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| 3. Voltaire didn't think so. |
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Anyone who believes such a thing is very pessimistic.
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Tue Jan-18-11 09:13 PM
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wanted to make the Voltaire reference first.
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Tue Jan-18-11 09:46 PM
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| 5. He was right about the monads though... |
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...they don't have any windows -- I checked.
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