Round 5: Tossup 15

This thinker imagined Alexander the Great’s soul to illustrate both a “complete individual concept” and the “doctrine of marks and traces.” This thinker used Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon to illustrate a theory of truth where predicates are contained within concepts. This thinker argued that only necessary truths are grounded on Aristotle’s principle of non-contradiction, while contingent truths are grounded in what this thinker called the Principle of Sufficient Reason. Before his (-5[1])death in 1716, this thinker argued that the only beings were “windowless” simple substances, which are only fully understood by the all-knowing God described in his Théodicée (“tay-oh-dee-SAY”). For 10 points, (10[1])name this optimistic German philosopher who wrote Monadology and claimed that we lived (10[1])in the best of all possible worlds. ■END■

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