A representação na mônada: expressão e ideias inatas em Leibniz

Our intention is to analyze the leibnizian concept of expressive idea through his notion of expression as relation of order between two or more distinct elements to demonstrate how Leibniz constructs with it a critic to the conception of perceptive representation as an imitation or copy of an original. We aim to understand with this in which sense the defense of an inatist conception of ideas allows the German author to consider that both Descartes and Locke are victims of the same error concerning their accounts of perception.