Author: G. W. Leibniz

Cited by

• William Vollmann (1)
  • IN: Butterfly Stories (1993) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The consequences beasts draw are just like those of simple empirics, who claim that what has happened will happen again in a case [that] strikes them [as] similar, without being able to determine whether the same reasons are at work. This is what makes it so easy to capture beasts. .
    FROM: Preface to The New Essays, (1765), Book, Germany