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Character and Cognition in Leibniz's Philosophy

Lee, Sang Myung 1

1숭실대학교

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This paper is a study about the role and meaning of the character in the epistemology of Leibniz. Leibniz insists that all human thinking takes place through the symbol or character. How this is possible, why it is needed, and what is symbolic thinking's role in the epistemology, I will examine through his fragments. First check the background and assumptions of symbolization and symbolic cognition in the 'alphabet of human thought' and the 'characteristica universalis'. And it is examined that symbolic cognition occupies very new and important place in the Leibniz-defined levels of cognition. I suggest that symbolic thinking would be an imitation of the divine intuitive cognition, for human mind have insufficient, imperfect knowledge. Leibniz claims the experience and the demonstration is the path to get the certain knowledge. The symbolic thinking in there not only defines the mental contents obtained from sense perception for distinguishing, but also takes a important role in the reasoning and argumentation. By means of this it says that it has the bridgehead roles for the demonstrative knowledge of the world. According to Leibniz, if we do not use characters, we are unable to get a certain cognition of the infinite God and the world.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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