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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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of his rritins, pet that isthe cause of the nimble local motion et
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therefore vas Physicallu and Fxtrinsecally, and Antecedently
andnot Morally caused by my rritine.
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means. And nhen it is determined; that one thine Ball be cho-
sen before another, it is determine d also for what cause it sall
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but to AgeneS and ActiOnS; that is tosay, to thines that moove,
or are moved. A Frec RsenE beinq chat mhose motion, or
action is not hindered nor stopt. And a Frec Action, that mhich
is produced by a Free Acent. AConeinsent Agene, is the
Same with an a Gene simply. But becanse men foribe most part
thine those thines are produced mithont cause, mhereos they de
noc seethe cause, theynse ro calboththe Agent and the Action
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the causesare Necessary, if they perceive not the necessity, they
calthose necessary Asentsand actions, inthines that bave Ap-
perite, Free; and in thines inanimate, C ontinsenE. The rest
ofhis Replytothispoint, is very little of it applied romy ansmer.
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cheWorid, chac a man cannoE, if he montd, neplect any
means oFBOOd, _c. Ile monid frandnlentiy insinnate that it
is my opinion, thata man isnot Free ro Do iF he will, and 10
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dectare d thar it is none of my opinion; and that my opinion is on-
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