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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 302, page id 1030877386:0302
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eo love a thine, and 1o chinte it good are allone, to a manthat does
not marte his onn meanine by those mords. Or hom can it be prooved
ehat FternItY IS NOF RUINC SCaNS; to a manthat Cayes these mords by
custome, and never considers horr he can conceive the thine it self
in his mind. Alsorhe pat point, that a mancannot ima ine any
rhine 1o becin ithont acause, can no other vay be made lenoion
hatby erging hom he canimarine it. Put it letry, hestall find as
muchreason (is there be no cause of the th. n5) toconceive, it sould
becin at one time as another, thac is, he lach egnall rea son tothinte.
it Bouldbeein at allrimes, mhichis impossible. And rherefore he
mast thint there vas sore special cause, hy it becan thenra-
ther than sooner or later, or else, that it becannever, but was
Fternal.
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men and Philosophers ofnen. sense, had need co produce Arons
eridence For himselE. So he callshis reaCons, Num b. 36. demon-
strative proofs. All demonstrations are cirtier From the cause Or
ehe effect, noc Fom privare norions and conceptions, which we
have in our minds. Thacmhich he calls a demonstrarion de
Serres nor che name of an intimarion. He argues chus; That
Which a man conccives inhis mind, by these mords Spontancity
Deliberation, c. tharthey are. This istris propolicion which
Pdenv. (a) The erue nacures oFchinss are nocto be judsed
by theprivace ideas, Or conceptions of men, buc by cheir caules
and formalreasons. Ask an ordinary person whac upmards lis
nifies, and Whecher our Ancipodes hare cheir heads upvards
Or donnvards; And he willnoc sick cocell vou, chacifhis
hread be upards, cheirs must needs be donnwards. And chis
is because he knows nocthe Formal reason chereot: chac the
Hlcarens incirele the cartti, and what is corards Feavenis up.
Wards. This lame erroneous nocion of upmaras and domnmards
Detore cherrue reason mas Fuliy discorered, abused more chan
ordinary capacicies, as appears by cheir arsumeris oF penduli
homines, and pendutae arbores. Rgain, Whar cio men conceive or-
dinaryly by chis word empry, as When cher las an empes vesset,
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