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    God has established that each finite substance truly repr... — Carmelics
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    God has established that each finite substance truly represents all other substances, despite substances existing independently of one another.

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    • 1.Finite substances are defined as existing independently of one another.
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    • 2.It does not seem necessary from the concept of substance alone that every substance truly represents all others.
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    • 3.God prefers a maximally harmonious world.
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    • 1.If substances are genuinely independent, no external coordination—even divine—can constitute their intrinsic representational content without violating that independence.
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    • 2.Pre-established harmony smuggles in a covert relational dependence on God that undermines the very definition of substance Leibniz requires.
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    • 1.Spinoza demonstrated that truly independent substances cannot be plural—genuine independence entails there is only one substance, not many representing each other.
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    • 2.Leibniz's appeal to divine goodness as the ground of harmony is an ad hoc theological postulate that does no explanatory work beyond restating the explanandum.
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    Yet Leibniz often seems to avert such a conclusion by appeal to his idea of “pre-established harmony”, and this is possible because he himself interprets this idea in two different ways. Early in his career, in such texts as “Primary Truths” (1680–84) and the “Discourse on Metaphysics” (1686) (both texts unpublished in Leibniz’s lifetime and not known to his immediate successors such as Wolff and Baumgarten), Leibniz introduces the doctrine of pre-established harmony on truth-theoretical grounds
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