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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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38.
nal to male, ihe Definirions os them true by matual consent in
their Renification. Andthoneh. his bemanifest lyirue, yet there
is nothine of ic amonest theSct ool. men, lehouse toarene not by rule
but as Fencers teach ro hardle meapons, by qickness cnly fihe
hand and eye. Zhe Bispop theresore bogcles at th. s kind os proos,
and says,
(a) Therrue nacures OEthinss, arenOL to be judsed by che
prirace Idens, or conceptions of men. but by cheis causes and
Furmall reasons. Aske an ordinary person, Wtiac upvards (1O.
nities _C. ) Bat what Will he ansver is L Bould astee hin hom he
Wil judeeo the canses of thins, voheref he hac no L’ea or con-
ception in his omn mind? Tr is cheresore in possible ro sive a true
definiri n’os ang mord, rithout che Idea, ot the thise which chat
vord Renit eth. or not acco. dino to tbat Idea, or conceprion. Fere
acain he disc vrcch che true cause, why he and orher Setool. men (0
often speat absuraly. For they speate wirhont conceprion of the
thines, and by roce, one reccivine mhat he saithfrom anoiher by
tradicion, from som pust d Pivine or Philosopher, thar to decline
a difficuler. Spearis in such manner, as noc to be understood. And
mrhereas hebidds us aste an ordinary person, hat upwards signi-
feth, L dare sensver for that ordinary person, be will rellus as
sienificant ly as any Scholler, and say it is romards Lleaven, and as
soon as he lenons the ea th is round males no scruple to believe
there are Antipodes, beins viser in that poine rhen mere those,
Which he saith; to have been of more then ordinary capacities.
Acain, ordinarr men understand not hesairh the mords, empey
and Body; res, but th. y de just as vell as Dearned men. Wrhen
they hear named an empry vessel, the learned as well as the un
learned mean and undrstand the same chine, namely, thatthere is
nochine in it that can bescen; and mhether it berruelY empty, the
Ploieh man, and the School mantenov alite. Tmiche cive he
says an handred such libe instances. Fhats erne; a man may cive
a thonsand fooliz and imperrinent instances of menienorant in
such questions of Philosophy concernine Empriness, B. dy, 2p-
varas, and Dornmards and the lite; But chequestion is not
Whetber such and sach tenets beerue, buc whether sach and such
vords can be vell defined; mithout chintine unon thethines they
fignifiet as the Bisop thintes they may. When he concludeth mith
thes