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 356 E. LATTA : THE PHILOSOPHY OF SPINOZA AND LEIBNIZ. "inclining" necessity, a necessity of blind fate, behind his " compossible " system a chaos of empty " possibilities," so that the real world is practically taken as a creation out of nothing, a development of that indeterminate capacity, that puissance nue, which Leibniz himself most frequently derides.