Monads and Sets: On Gödel, Leibniz, and the Reflection Principle

In Mark Atten (ed.), Essays on Gödel’s Reception of Leibniz, Husserl, and Brouwer. Cham: Springer Verlag (2015)
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Gödel once offered an argument for the general reflection principle in set theory that took the form of an analogy with Leibniz' Monadology. I discuss the mathematical and philosophical background to Gödel's argument, reconstruct the proposed analogy in detail, and argue that it has no justificatory force

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