As synthetic philosopher and dialectician he tries to merge primary philosophic doctrines : in gnoseology, empirism and rationalism; in metaphysics, monadology and substantialism; in ontology and methodology, dialectics and metaphysics ( in Hegel's sense ); science and religion, science and speculation and others.
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This may seem strange but there are reasons for thinking that it may presage the strange difference between the quantum and classical levels in modern physics ( see http : / / www . ucl . ac . uk / jonathan-edwards / monadology for a more detailed account of this ).
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Though initially a panentheist, Davidson's studies in Domodossola including the work of the Italian Renaissance philosopher Giordano Bruno, Leibniz, Kant, and Rosmini led him to a panpsychistic monadology, a theory that reality consists of an infinite number of mental or spiritual substances, each with an Aristotelian telos.
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That is to say, they are mind-like substances, not possessing spatial reality . " In other words, in the Leibnizian monadology, simple substances are mind-like entities that do not, strictly speaking, exist in space but that represent the universe from a unique perspective . It is the harmony between the perceptions of the monads which creates what we call substances, but that does not mean the substances are real in and of themselves.
