Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- About the Apparatus -- Acknowledgements -- Introductory Essay -- CH 1. Vices of Mingled Disputes -- CH 2. The Controversy of Controversies -- CH 3. The Religion of a Peasant -- CH 4. The Elements of Thinking -- CH 5. The Balance of Law -- CH 6. Can there be an Obligation to Believe? -- A. First draft -- B. New version -- C. Final version -- CH 7. Controversies on Sacred Matters -- CH 8. The Judge of Controversies -- A. First draft -- B. Definitive version -- C. Richelieu and De Groot on controversies -- D. The utility of controversies -- E. The most useful kind of controversies -- F. Controversies -- CH 9. Towards a Heuristics for Litigation -- A. Preserving form in litigation -- B. All possible litigations -- C.A handbook of practical litigations -- D. Juridical commonplaces -- E. Brocardic principles -- F. The art of writing dialogues -- CH 10. The Method of Jurists and the Method of Doctors -- CH 11. Interpretation and Argumentation in Law -- A. Prolegomena -- B. On the interpretation, foundations, application and system of laws -- CH 12. Towards a Heuristics for Discovery -- A. The art of invention -- B. Tables, divisions, and the plurality of methods -- C.A principle of discovery -- D.A rule of discovery -- CH 13. Estimating the Uncertain -- CH 14. Towards a Numerical Universal Language -- CH 15. The Encyclopedia and the Method of Discovery -- CH 16. Towards a Heuristics for Persuading -- A. The power of persuading -- B. Concurrence of arguments -- C. Quickly defeating an adversary -- D. Words -- E. Paradoxes -- F. Wrongdoing -- G. How grave a sin is not saying the truth? -- H. The occasion for persuading -- I. Disputing until completion -- CH 17. The Other's Place -- CH 18. Persuading a Skeptic -- CH 19. On Controversies -- CH 20. On Principles -- CH 21. Two Prefaces to the General Science -- A. The instauration of the sciences: A preface -- B. Foundations and examples of a new general science -- CH 22. Introduction to a Secret Encyclopedia -- CH 23. On the Creation of a New Logic -- CH 24. New Openings -- CH 25. Theology and the Principle of Contradiction -- CH 26. Changing Religion -- CH 27. Methods of Reunion -- CH 28. An Ars Characteristica for the Rational Sciences -- CH 29. 'Characterizing' Definitions and Demonstrating Propositions -- CH 30. Advancing the Art of Discovery -- CH 31. Correspondence with the Hamburg Jungians -- A. Leibniz to Placcius (March 1679) -- B. Leibniz to Placcius (January 1687) -- C. Leibniz-Vagetius-Leibniz (1686-1687) -- D. Leibniz to Placcius (1687) -- E. Leibniz to Placcius (April 1695) -- F. Leibniz to Placcius (May 1696) -- CH 32. The Philosophical Sin Controversy -- CH 33. Confronting the Catholic Hardliners:Two Memoirs for Pellisson -- A. First memoir -- B. Second memoir -- CH 34. Defining what Pertains to Faith -- CH 35. Judgment of a.