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Leibnitzian, a. and n.|laɪbˈnɪtsɪən|
Also Leibnitian, -izian.
[f. the name of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz (1646–1716) + -ian.]
A. adj. Pertaining to Leibnitz or his philosophical doctrines or mathematical methods.
1765A. Maclaine tr. Mosheim's Eccl. Hist. (1768) V. 23 note, The Leibnitian and Wolfian philosophy. 1778Milner in Phil. Trans. LXVIII. 362 The Leibnitzian doctrine. a1818Coleridge Lit. Rem. (1838) III. 73 The Leibnitzian distinction of the Eternal Reason, or nature of God..from the will or personal attributes of God. 1877E. Caird Philos. Kant ii. xiii. 504 The Leibnitzian Monadism. 1884Merz Leibniz 211 The great body of Leibnizian and Kantian thought.
B. n. A follower of Leibnitz.
1754Dict. Arts & Sci. II. 1293 Some Leibnitians do not assume..that action or force is proportional to the pressure and space. 1882W. Wallace Kant 101 Still the Leibnitians have almost all the experiences on their side.
Hence Leibˈnitzianism, the doctrines of Leibnitz or his followers.
1874Morris tr. Überweg's Hist. Philos. II. 120. |