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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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i Figures, MethodSyncherique ex Analytique, P’allacies ofC om
policion and Dirilion bere msof art. Lam not of his opinion.
For these are no more terms of. Art in Losick. then Lines, FIBuIres,
Sguares, Triansles esc. in the Mlathematicks. Barbara, Ce-
IdrenE, and the rest that follon are rerms of Art invented fer the
easier Apprehension of ronnemen, and are by jounemen understood.
BuE the terms ofthe Schocl nith rhich Lhave found fault, have
beeninvented coblind the understandine, and cannot be understosd
by those that intend ro learn Divinity. And 10 his qnestion mhe-
Hler ihe Ahoral Philosopher must quit his means and extreams,
Lansmer, that thonchehey are not terms of Art, he oueht to quite
them, whenther cannot be understood, and whenchey can- +0 use
them rich. ly. And cherefore thonch meanS and CxErCaMS, be
terms intellisible, vet LWould have them quit the placine of ver-
tue intheone, and of vice in che other. But for his liberty et con-
cradiction _ contrarietr, his necessirr absolure _ Hyporherical
(is any moral Philosopher ever used them) then amay rmiththem,
they serve for nothine but to seduce ronne Students. In like man-
ner let the natural Philo (opher no more mention his incentional
Species, his underkandino Agene and Patiene, his Recepeire
and F ductire pover oEche maccer, his qualities infulxe or in-
Auxae, Symbolae or Disymbola his Temperament ad pondus and
ad julticiam. Fle may kcep his pares Hlomoseneous and Hetero-
Geneous; buc his Simpathies and Antipathies, his Antiperistasis
and the libe, names of exeuses, rather then of causes, L mould have
himflins arvay. And forthe Astroloser (untesse he means Astro-
vomer) lvould have him throm amay his mhole trade; bur is he
mean astronomer, thentheterms of ApoExum, and Perisxeum,
Arrique. Ancarrique, SEgnator, Zodiacte Zenith, Meridian,
FTorizon, Zones, ∞c. are ne more terms of Art in Astronomi.
then a SaW, or atlatchee inthe Arr of a Carpenter. Ile cites no
terms of Art for Ceometry. Lmas afraid he mould have put Lines,
or perhaps Fqualiey or Inequalier for terms of Art. So that noW L
lenoi not har be those terms he thintes Y mould cast amay in
Geomerry. And lastly for his Mletaphysician, Tmonid have him
quit boch his terms and his Profession, as beine in cruch (as Plu-
carel. aich in the beginnine of the lise ofAlexander rhe Coreat ) norat
all profitable to learnins but made onely for an essay, to the learner;
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