In this way, every individual substance has a complete concept, a conception so complete (that is, so fully determinate) that every fact about the substance, and about its situation in the universe past, present or future follows from it analytically.
Like a good reference work, "The Everything Book" can be randomly opened and still provide a complete concept.
The device was part of a complete concept called The Human Spaceflight Training Recommendations Against Weightlessness Project (H-STRAW Project).
While it is still a program or a complete concept, on Leibniz's view, that does imply determination.
Leibniz, famously, has the idea of a complete concept of a substance, and it seems that such as concept would contain an infinite number of constituents God grasps the complete concept of a substance by grasping all its constituents.
Leibniz argued that, whereas a real substance has a complete concept, the Cartesian notion of extended substance is an abstraction arrived at through an incomplete concept.
While Leibniz's view that every substance has a complete concept reinforces the centrality of reason in his epistemology, in doing so, it seems to undercut human and even divine volition, and thereby to slide toward Spinozism.
Leibniz's insistence that every individual substance has a complete concept entailed that, unlike Spinoza, he regarded Cartesian thinking substance and not Cartesian extended substance as paradigmatic of substance.
Leibniz's point is that, since the Adam of the actual world (call him "Adam@") has a complete concept containing all of his properties and since Adam@ (or any substance) expresses the entire world of which he is a member, Adam@ could not exist in a different world.
A complete concept of justice should more fully consider and understand the suffering of all those affected by crime.
