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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 236, page id 1030877386:0236
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chines, thonghchey may, andare most osten decerved by eivine
unto them vorone termsor appellations, different fromthose wtich
are commonty used, ant constirured to sien fre their conceptions.
And therefore they that study to artain the cerrain lenomledee of
truth, de usero set dovon before band all the terms they are to
expresse themselves by, and declare in rhat sense they sal
use them constantly. And bythis means, the Peader havine an
ldea of every thine there named, cannot conccive amisse. But
henaman fromthebearins of a ord hath no Idea os the chine
serified, butonely of the sonnd, and of the Letters whereof the
mordis made (hichis that he here calleth MenEaII CerMS) it
is impossible he pould conceive ariche, or brine forth any chine
but absuraiey; ashedothhere, whenhe says, thac mhen Tarquin
delivered his commands to his son, by onely Arikins of che COpS
OF ehie Poppies, he did it hy Mencal terS. A5 if tostrick of
the head of a Poppivere Mentalrerm. It is the sound and the
Lerters that makerh Lim thinh Flicicus and Imperacus somemhat.
Andit is the same that makes him say (forthinte it he cannot) that
toil, or choose, is dranon, or allured, or ferehst ont of ihe porver
eo Wil. For dramine cannor beimarine d but of bodys; and there
fore toil, to speake, to rrite, to dance, r0 leape, or any may to be
m. ved, cunnot be said intellicibly to be dravn; much lesse to be
drannont of a Porver, that is tosay, ont of an abiliry; for What-
soever is drannont, is dravon ont of one place intoanother. le
that can discourse in ehis monner in Philosophy, cannot probably
be thouche able ro discourse rationally in any rhine.
(P) Hlis octer objection against chis distinction ofche ACS
Ofche Will inco Elicire and imperate is oescuriey. Michr ie
not (Paich he) have beenas casitr said in Enclist, a voluntary
Action Tes, ic mixhe hare been said as easiIy, buE nOT aS cry
ly, nor 25 prOPerIY.) Fle says, thar Actus Imperatusis mhen
a man opens or Burs his eyes at che command ofthe Wil.
Cay rhen a manovens and surs his eyes accordinq eo his Wil, that
it is a voluntary Action; aud Lbelieve me mean one and che same
ching. Wherher ef us speate moreproperly, ormorerruly, let the
Reader Zudge.
(9) TBuc his mistates are (o chick, 8c. Twill do my dury
eo Ete lim the righe Was. Firk, no Acts which arc pro-