Abstract

RAFFO QUINTANA, FEDERICO. METHOD, DEMONSTRATION AND INVENTION: LEIBNIZ AND THE TREATMENT OF QUADRATURE PROBLEMS. Ideas y Valores [online]. 2022, vol.71, n.180, pp.97-116.  Epub Mar 27, 2023. ISSN 0120-0062.  https://doi.org/10.15446/ideasyvalores.v71n180.86301.

The article reconstructs Leibniz's methodological conception of the late Parisian period underlying the treatise On the Arithmetical Squaring of the Circle, the Ellipse, and the Hyperbola (1676). It is shown that Leibniz conceived of a procedure where the finding of new knowledge somehow coincided with its demonstration and in which the processes of analysis and synthesis were employed in various ways.

Keywords : W. G. Leibniz; analysis; demonstration; invention; synthesis.

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