“There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.”
Gottfried Leibniz
Tags: Also | Contingent | Fact | Impossible | Kinds | Necessary | Opposite | Possible | Reasoning | Their | Those | Truth | Truths | Two
52% of people like this quote
Gottfried Leibniz
Author details
Related authors
Other Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
Gottfried Leibniz
57% of people like this quote
I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
Gottfried Leibniz
56% of people like this quote
It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in regulating the rest from the beginning of things, should have regard to itself.
Gottfried Leibniz
55% of people like this quote
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
Gottfried Leibniz
53% of people like this quote