Hartman, Richard Otis2018-09-272018-09-2719631963b14686697https://hdl.handle.net/2144/31378Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston UniversityIt has been the central purpose of this dissertation to show that the structure of personality as conceived by Leibniz and Schopenhauer is employed as a key analogy to facilitate the understanding of their respective theories of knowledge and reality. The method of analogy is a method of comparing structures which are similar, but not identical. Analogy is defined as a type of predication in which the same term, concept or word is predicated of two or more objects with meanings that are partly the same and partly different[TRUNCATED]en-USBased on investigation of the BU Libraries' staff, this work is free of known copyright restrictions.Thesis/Dissertation1171902565192099175769380001161