| Even for Leibniz, whose later monadological metaphysics was perhaps closer to Berkeley's immaterialist philosophy, an opposition to materialism didn't necessarily imply immaterialism. |
| Philonous needs to convince him that a commonsensical philosophy could be built on an immaterialist foundation, that no one but a skeptic or atheist would ever miss matter. |
| When his immaterialist resources are properly applied, the argument has more merit than one might initially believe. |
| In Feyerabend's view, commonsense introspective reports are irreducibly immaterialist in content. |
| Rather, it's that the good arguments don't even get a hearing since they offer an immaterialist account, and immaterialist accounts can't really be knowledge. |
| The degree to which Leibniz was, if at all, an immaterialist is subject to much contemporary dispute. |
