Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — "I am not one of those people whose minds are so limited that they are unable to …"
I am not one of those people whose minds are so limited that they are unable to conceive of more than one kind of substance.
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From a letter, defending his pluralistic metaphysics against more reductive views.
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