(S) Leibniz

Question 1

what did he question?

Answer 1

“why is there something rather than nothing”

Question 2

In his Principle of Sufficient Reason he said what?

Answer 2

Every state of affairs has an explanation

- this is true even if we do not have sufficient information to provide an explanation

Question 3

For a sufficient reason for the world existence there must be what?

Answer 3

a being that can create existence
- this being must necessarily exist, this is God
(principle of sufficient reason)

Question 4

What did Leibniz use?

Answer 4

The Analogy of the Revised Geometry Book to prove his case