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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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otien cher must produce ic, chen chere is no doube bucche et-
Fect is necessary. (C) Buc ilchese causes did operate Frecly, Or
concingenty, it chesmistchare luspended or denied cheir
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the effect wasnocrruly and ancecedencly necestary, Duc ei-
eher free or concinsone. This will Derec clearer by con-
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chemselres, surposins the meature oE torce applied,
and supposins aIl ocher chines hich did concur eo chie pro-
duction ofchatcast, eo be che very samethes vere, there is
no doubebueinthis case che castisnecesTIrV. BuC RIII chis
is buea necessier oF supposition; For if all chele concurrene
causes, or Pome ot them vere contingeheor Free, then the
cast was noc ablolurely necessary. Yo beein michthe Ca-
Cer, He mishchare denied his concurrence and noc have
Cast aFAII; FC mishe hare sulpended his concurrence, and
nochare cast l0 (oon; He mishe hare doubled or dimini-
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hare chromnthe Diceinco cheocher Table. In aIl thele ca-
ses whae becomes of his ambs. ace? The like uncercaincies
Ofer chemselres For che maker ofche Tables, and tor ehe
maher otthe Dice, and Forche keeper oF the Tables, and
For ehe kind of WVood, and I knoW noc hon many other
circumstances. In such amals ofcontinsencies, it is impon
iblechat che efect Mould De ancecedencly necellarv. T. II.
appeales to everr mans experience. Jam contenced. Let
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vincing, muchless conttreinins realon, eo necessitare him to
anv one oF chese particular acts morechan anocher; Due
onely his omn will or arbicrary decerminarion. S0F. HI.
his necesties is no absolure, no ancecedent, extrinsecalne-
cesticy, bur meeris a necesticy upon supposition.