... ambitious projects. This meant that above all that Leibniz's rich and complex philosophy had to offer; it unfortunately had to be gathered primarily from a large set of quite short manuscripts, many fragmentary and unpublished. Leibniz, being a man clearly of many talents, had a comment or theory about nearly everything, but none it may seem stood out larger than his idea of truth and substance, and therefore a good starting point for most when dealing with Leibniz is tempting to begin with his conception of truth. But insofar as Leibniz is a metaphysician, it is equally tempting to begin with his account of the nature of reality and in particular substance and matter. Less common, but perhaps equally likely starting points might lie in Leibniz the mathematician, the theologian or the physicist. These controversies, however, already contain a lesson: to an important degree it doesn't matter. So integrated ...

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