Acknowledgement
The author gratefully acknowledges support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Notes
1. Leibniz to Placcius, February-March 1696, in Dutens, Opera omnia, VI, 1, 65. My translation.
2. Cassirer, Leibniz’ System, 457–58. The argument is central to Cassirer’s great work, Freiheit und Form (1916).