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LEIBNIZ AND AESTHETIC
II
For Leibniz, the Cartesiancriteria of clearness and distinctnessare
not sufficient for a proper classificationof our ideas. The content of
the Meditations on Knowledge, Truth, and Ideas of 1684 1 appears as
a constant in all the later writings of Leibniz. Here Leibniz provides
a series of dichotomies:knowledgeis obscure or clear, if clear, then it
is either confusedor distinct;and if distinct,then it is either inadequate
1 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Philosophical Papers and Letters, trans. and ed.
Leroy E. Loemker, 2 Vols. (Chicago, 1956), I, 448-454.
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LEIBNIZANDAESTHETIC 71
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72 PHILOSOPHY
ANDPHENOMENOLOGICAL
RESEARCH
III
Leibnizthus holds that furtherinvestigationwill often reveal the true
source of the pleasure realized in the clear but confused knowledge
presentin aestheticexperience.He is explicit on the results of such an
5 Benedetto Croce, Aesthetic, tr. Douglas Ainslie, 2nd ed. (New York, 1920),
p. 208.
6 Ibid., p. 273.
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74 RESEARCH
ANDPHENOMENOLOGICAL
PHILOSOPHY
IV
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76 ANDPHENOMENOLOGICAL
PHILOSOPHY RESEARCH
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LEIBNIz AND AESTHETIC 77
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78 PHILOSOPHY
ANDPHENOMENOLOGICAL
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80 PHILOSOPHY
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RESEARCH
28 Ibid., p. 160.
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