Harvey's reading of Leibniz transfers certain characteristics of monads as simple substances to those composite ones. |
According to Leibniz, the whole world is an aggregate of monads. |
Spinoza would be right, said Leibniz, were it not for the existence of monads. |
Know that even the smallest things have desire, even the things which can never be cut into smaller things again, like Leibnitz says of monads. |
It is appetition that accounts for the monad's indivisibility, while the infinite set of perceptions accounts for its distinctness from all other monads. |
Pollen grains are packaged into polyads of 32 associated monads, more than enough to fertilize the ovules of an individual flower. |