Three (3) Axioms… Principles… Laws
(1) force. change in quality essence (that’s why Liebniz priors force, because essence/form is eternal)
(2) action. the changing action (that which becomes it) (a/o in every middle)
(3) position. change in being (only ONE never began to exist/be)
Previous translations from Plato’s Theaetetus:
The Three Axioms
- No object can become greater or smaller without having something added to or subtracted from it.
- No object to which nothing is either added or subtracted is made greater or smaller.
- Any object that now is, but previously was not, must have suffered becoming.
The Three Axioms
- Nothing can become greater or less, either in number or magnitude, while remaining equal to itself.
- Without addition or subtraction there is no increase or diminution of anything, but only equality.
- What was not before cannot be afterwards, without becoming and having become.
God is quality from which nothing can be subtracted, and to which nothing can be added. Maximal greatness.
God’s quality is unchanging, but actively subsumes all change. Unchangeable actor.
God did not come into being, but has always been. Eternal being.
Maximally great, unchangeably active, eternal being.