Conceptual mereology in Leibniz's monadology also exhibits whole-priority: monads derive their determinate properties only through their relational position in the pre-established whole.
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Leibniz's metaphysical doctrine, interpreted by Kant as a 'Platonic' account of the world considered apart from sensory experience, not an explanation of appearances.
pre-established harmony(Leibniz's early career writings; introduced to resolve the tension between the independence of substances and the requirement that each represent the whole universe)
A doctrine introduced on truth-theoretical grounds, holding that God, in his goodness and preference for a maximally harmonious world, has established that each substance truly represents all other substances in the universe, even though finite substances exist independently of one another.
whole-priority(as used in metaphysics and philosophy of parts and wholes)
The idea that the complete whole comes first in importance or in how we understand something, rather than starting from individual parts and building up.