which solved the mind-body problem, but at the cost of declaring any interaction between substances a mere appearance.

Summary

The rhetorical strategy adopted by Leibniz in The Monadology is fairly obvious as the text
*begins with a description of monads (proceeding from simple to complicated instances),
*then it turns to their principle or creator and
*finishes by using both to explain the world.

(I) As far as Leibniz allows just one type of element in

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