(らいぷにっつ Leibniz [Leibnitz], Gottfried Wilhelm von)
`It is demonstrable,' Pangloss would say, `that things cannot be other than they are. For, since everthing is made for a purpose, everything must be for the best possible purpose. Noses, you observe, were made to support spectacles: consequently, we have spectacles. Legs, it is plain, were created to wear breeches, and are supplied with them.'
Voltaire, Candide, Wordsworth Classics, 1999, p. 2
ドイツの思想家 (1646-1716)。手紙魔だったらしい。 ニュートンやロック なんかと論争したりした。 (07/06/99)