Two-Track Depictions of Leibniz’s Fictions

Mikhail Katz; Karl Kuhlemann; David Sherry; Monica Ugaglia; Mark van Atten

doi:10.1007/s00283-021-10140-3

Journal articles

Two-Track Depictions of Leibniz’s Fictions

Mikhail Katz ^{1, *} Karl Kuhlemann ² David Sherry ³ Monica Ugaglia ⁴ Mark van Atten ⁵

* Corresponding author

1 Bar-Ilan University [Israël]

2 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover

3 Department of Philosophy, Northern Arizona University

4 Independent Researcher

5 PG,HCP - Pays germaniques , histoire - culture - philosophie (UMR8547)

Abstract : Leibniz described imaginary roots, negatives, and infinitesimals as useful fictions. But did he view such ‘impossible’ numbers as mathematical entities? Alice and Bob take on the labyrinth of the current Leibniz scholarship.

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Humanities and Social Sciences / Philosophy

Humanities and Social Sciences / History, Philosophy and Sociology of Sciences

Mathematics [math]

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