| The activity, or appetition, that Leibniz regards as characterizing the monads is intimately bound up with his Principle of Sufficient Reason. |
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| Or, to put this in Leibniz's more customary terminology, what is found within us is perception and appetition. |
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| The last two paragraphs have helped to clarify appetition. |
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| Purpose involves a distinction between what is and what might be and an appetition for some form of what might be. |
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| It is appetition that accounts for the monad's indivisibility, while the infinite set of perceptions accounts for its distinctness from all other monads. |
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