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Genre:
"Prose"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Work title:
"Nouveaux Essais sur l'entendement humain [New Essays on Human Understanding]"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Machine"
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Date: 1765
"That is, a sentient or thinking being is not a mechanical thing like a watch or a mill: one cannot conceive of sizes and shapes and motions combining mechanically to produce something which thinks, and senses too, in a mass where [formerly] there was nothing of the kind--something which would li...
preview | full record— Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716)