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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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ro understand a thine is to imazine it; that ro hope and fcarare to
imarine thethinzs hoped for and feared. T he difference bermeen
themis, that mhen me imasine the consequence of any thine, ve
are said 10 consider rhat thins; and when me have imacine d ans
thine fromasien, and especially fromthose fiens, we call names,
We are said ro enderstand his meanine that maleththe fien; and
nhex ve reason, re imarine the consequence of affirmations, aud
necations jeynedtocether; and when We hope or fear, me imacine
thines coodor hurtful to our selves; insomnch as all these are but
iracinations, diversty named. from different circumstances, as
anr man may perceive as easily as he can looke into his ovnthonchts.
But 10 him that thinketh not himself upon the thines whercof, but
upon the moras rhere mi:hhespeaketh, and taketh those mords on
trust from pusted Schoolmen, it is not onely hard, basc impossible to
beknomn. Andehis is ehe reason that mahethlim jay Lmale
Deliberation he lnors not what. But hor is de liberation defined
byhim. Ttis (saithhe) an inquiry made by reason, whecher chis
Or chatdefinicely considered, bea g00d and Ac means; or in-
definicely, whac are good and fc means eo be chosen For actain-
ins fome wistred end, If it iere not his custome to say, the under-
standine understandeth, the Wil willerh, and so ofthe rest of the fa-
culries  Bould have believe d that when he Cays deliberarion is an
inquiry made by reason he meanethan inguiry made by the man
that reasoneth; for so it will be sense: But the reason rhich a man
useth in deliberation, beine the same thine thatis called Delibe-
ration, his Desirition, that Deliberation is an inquirys made by
reason, is nn more thenis he had said; Deliberation is an inquiry
made by Deliberation; a Definitien cood enonch to bemade by
a School. man. Nor is the rest ofthe Definition alcocether as it
Bouldbe; for there is no such thine as an indefinice considerari-
On oFWtrac are good and tic means; but amanimacinine first one
t’ins, then another, considereth them successively and sinsly eacts
one, Whether it conduceth to his ends or not.
T. II.
s Loode. Ial in all deliberations, tharis ro say, in
all alternare succession of contrary appetires, the last is that
Which ne cal therril. es is immediat ly before the doine of the acti-
b