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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 20
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Third paper.
1. This relates only tothe signification os Words, The
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Definitions here guuen, may Well be alloWed: And y et Mathe-
matical Reusomnas may be applied to Physical et Metaphysical
subjects. S
2. Undoubtedly Nothinus is, Without a sufficient Reason
Whyit is, vather than not; et Dhyit is Thus, rather than
Othervise. Bul in Mhings in Aneir Oun nature indifferent; mere
Wilt, Nitorit anu thinu external to influence it, is alone
Mhat sufficient Reason: As in the instance ot lods crealinq on
placinu any particle os Matter n une place rather than m
Another, Wenal places are origmally aliffe. And the Case
et thesame, even though space Were noming real, but onty
Re mere Order os Bodies. Aor ill it Would be absolutels
ndifserent, et there could be no other reason but mere Will. Ihy 13
equal Particles ppould be placet or ranget in the order 1, Z, 13,
rather, thanim the contrary order. Aud Therefore no Argument
can be dratn trom Ahis Inditerencyol All Flaces, to prove that
No space is real. Tor diferent spaces are really different
or distinet one prom anviner, hongn they be pergecly alife. dno
There is This evident Aosurditu in supposinque space not hobe real,
bat to be merely theorder ol Dodies; that, aclordmus to that Notion, et
the Carth et sun et Moon had been placed, Nere the remotest fixt stars
Novare, provided mey Nere placed in the jame Order el distance they
nonare With regard one to anomer: il Wouldnot only have been,
Casthis earned dumor righllus sags) la même hose, the same
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Mhat they Would then have been in the same Tlace too, asmeyare
Nov. Sihichis an expreis contradiction.
The Antients did not call All Space Which is Poid os Bodies,
but onbys extramun dane space, by the Name ol maginary space. The
Meamnu of Mhuch, es not mat sum space es not real; but onty that We