El problema del continuum y sus implicancias en la teorí­a leibniziana de la sustancia

Abstract

The problem of the continuum has a central part in the development of Leibnizian mature system. It appears, early in the 70s, when he intends to explain matter and its union with the soul from a geometric-mechanistic perspective. The same question reappears later, in the debate with Arnauld on substantial unity. In defining substance in terms of real unity, Leibniz expels continuity to the ideal realm. In doing so, he puts his system on the way to both, a monadological ontology and a metaphysical scheme articulated in three levels (real, phenomenal and ideal).