preestablished harmony en · NOUN
Meanings
- (uncountable) Gottfried Leibniz's philosophical theory of causation, according to which every substance affects only itself, but all the substances in the world (both bodies and minds) nevertheless seem to interact with each other causally because they have been programmed in advance by God to harmonize with each other.
Forms
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Translations (2)
de prästabilierte Harmonie (theory of causation) · fr harmonie préétablie (theory of causation)