The Nouveaux Tests on the human understanding are a philosophical work of the rationalist philosopher German Gottfried Leibniz, published in 1764.

Written in 1704, the Nouveaux Tests on the human understanding are a refutation chapter by chapter of the work of Locke of 1689, the Essai on the human understanding . Written, like many philosophical works of the time, in the form of a imaginary Dialog between Philalèthe, which defends the position empirist and Theophilus who opposes the rationalist arguments to him S, the Nouveaux Tests constitute, with the Théodicée , one of the two only works that Leibniz supplemented. Leibniz abstained from publishing it by respect for dead Locke the year of its drafting. When it was finally published, sixty years later, the philosophy of Leibniz had passed from mode.

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