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Apology for a Credo Maximum: On Three Basic Rules in Leibniz’s Method of Religious Controversy

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Laerke, M. (2008). Apology for a Credo Maximum: On Three Basic Rules in Leibniz’s Method of Religious Controversy. In: Dascal, M. (eds) Leibniz: What Kind of Rationalist?. Logic, Epistemology, and The Unity Of Science, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8668-7_26

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