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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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channel. Andche exerinsecal impedimene isas freac in ascen-
dins up che channelas orer chebanks, or rather sreacer, be-
cause chere ic must moore, noc onely asainst cheritins soil, but
allo asainst the succeedins waters, wtrich press Forward the
former. Ficher che Rivec wanes liberer tor boch, or elle ic
Wanes libercy For neicher.
Buc co leare his mecaphorical faculcies, and his Catachresti-
cal Liberer. Hon far is his discourse wide fcom che erue moral
liberey, ihich is in quellion becween us. Hlis Former descrip-
tion ofatree Agene, chacis, he mho harh not made an end of de-
liberatine choush ic as wide From che mark, ver ic came muctr,
neerer che cruch chan ehis difinicion of Liberey, unless pertraps
he chink chac ehe macer hach done deliberarins, Whecher ic will
80 over chebants, buc hach noc done deliberarins, whecherie
Wwill 80 up che channel.
Animadrersions upon tho Ansver
co Numb. XXIX.
(a) C F T On chac Monld be a rixhe definicion of Liberer.
d. R Which comprehends neicter che Genus nor che
Difference, neicher theMacrer, nor cheForm, oF Liberey, _c.
HTow areall Faculey, or the electire pover Bould Be defined by
anesation; or by an absence; is past my understandins; and
contrary co all the rules oFrixhe reason, which Phave learned.
Arieht definition is. that which determineththe penification of
the mord defined, to the end chat inthe discourse rbere it is used
the meanine of it may be constant aud vrithont equivocation. This
is the measure os a definitionnd intellicible to an Fnelist Reader.
But ee Disop that measures it b, the Cenus and the Difference,
il intes (it Jeems) thouoh he corite Enclist, he vrites not to an
Enslis R eader, antesse ie also be a Scheol man. Yconfesse the
rule u coodthat me ouett ro define (uhenit can be done) by usine
first sone more general term, and then by restrainine, the sienifi-
cat on ofthat ceneral term rill 2t b. th. Came mith that of the mora
defincd. Andehis eencral term, the School calls Crenus, and the
restraint Ditterence; This L Say is a 8ood rule where it can be
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