Nouveaux essais sur l’entendement humain

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Nouveaux essais sur l’entendement humain is a major philosophical work by Leibniz in which he systematically responds to John Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding and develops his own theory of knowledge, innate ideas, and the nature of the mind.

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New Essays on Human Understanding 2

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instanceOf book ⓘ
philosophical work ⓘ
author Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ⓘ
comparesWith An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ⓘ
completedIn 1704 ⓘ
countryOfOrigin Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg NERFINISHED ⓘ
criticizes An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ⓘ
empiricism ⓘ
featuresCharacter Philalèthe ⓘ
Théophile NERFINISHED ⓘ
firstPublishedIn 1765 ⓘ
genre early modern philosophy ⓘ
hasPart Book I ⓘ
Book II ⓘ
Book III ⓘ
Book IV ⓘ
influenced 18th-century philosophy ⓘ
later rationalist epistemology ⓘ
influencedBy An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ⓘ
John Locke ⓘ
libraryOfCongressSubject Of Knowledge and Probability ⓘ
surface form: Knowledge, Theory of

Mind and body ⓘ
mainSubject epistemology ⓘ
innate ideas ⓘ
metaphysics ⓘ
philosophy of mind ⓘ
theory of knowledge ⓘ
modeledOn four-book structure of Locke’s Essay ⓘ
notableIdea distinction between necessary and contingent truths ⓘ
doctrine of innate dispositions ⓘ
small perceptions (petites perceptions) ⓘ
originalLanguage French ⓘ
philosophicalEra Early Modern period ⓘ
philosophicalSchool rationalism ⓘ
philosophicalTopic freedom and necessity ⓘ
innateness of ideas ⓘ
language ⓘ
nature of ideas ⓘ
nature of the mind ⓘ
perception ⓘ
personal identity ⓘ
substance ⓘ
placeOfPublication Leipzig NERFINISHED ⓘ
publicationStatus posthumous ⓘ
publisher Rudolph Raspe ⓘ
structure dialogue ⓘ
supports rationalism ⓘ
title Nouveaux essais sur l’entendement humain self-link ⓘ
writtenInResponseTo An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ⓘ

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Discourse on Metaphysics → relatedWorkByAuthor → Nouveaux essais sur l’entendement humain ⓘ
this entity surface form: New Essays on Human Understanding
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