Leibniz's fundamental error was ontological reductionism: because extremization of an action is true in physics, he believed it must be true everywhere—a direct implication of his view that physics is how God operates—and therefore everything observed must happen for a good reason, which is the reductionist position that to understand the complex world (cultural world), one must understand it in terms of principles of physics.
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“but the problem with liet as I said is that he was an ontological reductionist he said that if the extremization of an action was true in physics then it should be true everywhere right because that's how God operates and so the way we understand the complex what we would call the complex world the cultural world let's say uh is in terms of principles of physics and therefore everything that we observe has to happen for a good reason”
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