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Abstract: This paper investigates the fundamental aspects of Leibniz’s thought on music. From an
analysis of Leibniz's thesis that the aesthetic reception of the musical phenomenon consists of a hidden
or unconscious exercise of arithmetic, two presuppositions are identified, in the light of which it is possible
to draw the general lines of the author's conception on the theme. With this general characterization, we
aim to determine more precisely Leibniz's position on music with respect to the question of temperament.
From textual evidence and in spite of a traditional interpretation, we sustain that a purely rationalist
position, linked to Pythagoreanism, can not be attributed to the author, and that some of his theses on
this subject approach him to a musical empiricism.
Keywords: Leibniz, metaphysics, musical aesthetics, harmony, temperament.
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