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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 308, page id 1030877386:0308
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these mords, S0 bis propoticion is salfe.
(6) FHis ralon, that matrer of fact is not ver fred by other
mens Arcumenes, buc by every mans onn sense andmemory, is
likewise maimed on boch sides. WVhecher we hear such words,
Ornoc, is marter offact, and senle is thebroper Judse ofit;
buc wrhracchese words do, or oushe eruely eo GisnEe, is nOEEO
De judsed by sense, buc By reason.) A man is borne mithaca-
paciry after due rime and exverience to rea on trucly; to wbich
capacity of nature, if t’erebe added no Discipline at alb, Vet, as fc:Y
as hereasoneth he mil reason truely, thonch by a richt Discipline.
he may reason truely in more numerous and varions matt rs. But
he that bath lichred on deceivins or deceiv. d masters, that teach
for cruth. all that hathbeen dictated to them by th. ir omn interest.
or hach beeneried up by other such reachers beforethem, have for
the most part their natural reason as far as concernethibe truthof
Doctrine quire defaced or very much vealened, becomine chanse-
lives thronch the inchantments of mords not understood. This
comethinto my mind from this fayins ofthe BistoP, that marter of
fact, is not verisre d by sense and memory but by areuments. Ilom
is it possible that mithout Discipline a man poula cometorhinte
that the cestimony of u mitress, Which is the onely verifier of maiter
offact sonld consist, not in lense andmemory, se as he may (ay
hesare and remem bers che thins done, but in treumenis or S. Ie-
sismes? Or hon can an unlearned man bebronche to thinte the
mords he speutes, onche to signifie. (When he speates sinc rely) any
thins else, bu: that whichlimself meanc by them? Or hom ean
any man mithont learnine t. ketre question whectier ehe sun be
no bisger chena balI, cr bisser chenche Farit, e bea qustion
of fact? Lor do L cbinte chat any man is so simple as not to find
thar rohe food mhich he loveth. eo0d L Cay so far forth, as it m. Keth
him to loveit; or is rhere any unl arned man, so st pi d as rothinte
Frerniry es this present instant Ftime standins Bill, and the same
Aternit to berheveryn eet instant aster, and consequently that
there beso many rernities as there can beinstants of time supoo
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