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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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Animautertions upon the Bistrops
Rexly. Numb. XXIII.
(a) CC Upposins che last dictare ofche understandins did
alvares decermine cheWil, vec this decermination,
beins noc ancecedent intime, ror proceedins trom extrinse.
calleauses, bur trom ehie properresolurion oFthe AgenE, Who
hadnon frecly determined himselF, makes no ablolure neceM-
e, buc onely Hypotherical, _C.) Flis is the Disops ansver
1o tho necessitu inferredfrom thar; that the Wil ne: essarily fol-
Lorreththe last dictate of the understandine; lich ansiver he thintes
is nor sufficient ly talen amay. becarse the last act of the understan-
dine is in rime cosether with rh. Wil it self, and therefore not an-
recedem. Tris true rhat the WV: lis not produced, but inthe same
Instant with the last dicta eof the understandinq; bu: Yl. e necessicy
of ie ril, and the nece ssiry of the last dictate of che understandine
may have been antecedent. F’or that last dictate of lhe understandine
vas produced by causes ancecedent, an Lmas then necessary thouch
not yet produced; as rhen astone is fallinr, the necessiey of rouchine
the carth is amecedent to the touch it sels. For all motion throneh
any derermined space, necessarily makes a morien thronch the next
space, antesse it be hindere d by some contrary external motion, and
ehen thestop is as necessary, as the proccedir.  mould have been. The
dreument thcrefore from the last dictare of the understandine
sufficiently inserreth an antecedent necessity, as creat as the ne-
cessity thar astone sall fallehen it is already falline. Asfor his
other ansiver, thac che Wil does noc certainty follon che las
dictate ofche understandis chovgh. ic alvayes oughero follon
ie, he himsels says it is but probable; but any manthat speales
not by roce, but thintes. of vohat hesays, will presently find it falsez
and that it is impossible tomill any thine that appears not first in
his understandine 1o be cood forhim. And Wh: reas he Cars, the
Wil ouche to follon the last dictare os ete understandine, unlesse he
mean tharthe man oushe ro fellon it, it is an insienificani speech
(for duries areche mans not the Wils duries) andis he means so
then ris false; for a manouche not to follor the dictate of the un-
derstandine rhen it is erroneons.