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Date: 1714
If we imagine a "machine whose structure makes it think, sense, and have perceptions" enlarged to the size of a mill, upon "inspecting its interior, we will only find parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception"
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Date: 1714
"There is an infinity of past and present shapes and motions that enter into the efficient cause of my present writing"
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Date: 1714
Souls, "in general, are living mirrors or images of the universe of creatures."
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Date: 1714
Each "mind [is] like a little divinity in its own realm."
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