ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that in Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz the Adamic language of nature emerges fully preserved as a language of thought. It shows that Adamicism survives entirely in Leibniz's philosophy of mind. In Leibniz the Adamic language of nature just becomes the language of thought, even though Leibniz does not label the human understanding's system of ideas as a language of nature. The chapter also argues that for Leibniz human ideas are innate, universal, and natural. It suggests that ideas are accurate and nonarbitrary representations whose semantic content is a function of their structure and shows the structural properties upon which mental representation rests are the mind's causal powers. The chapter also shows that Leibniz's Ad-amicist and dynamic philosophy of mind provided Leibniz with a systematic reason for being interested in Jacob Boehme and seventeenth-century theologica mystica: Leibniz and the theologica mystica shared a dynamic conception of mind.
