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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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do many chines foolistly, andbicause in this question disputed be-
mecnus, Lthink he will appear a creater fool then L.
T. TI.
i Orche sevenih point, that allevents have nece ssory canses, it is pJUI. 24
there proved in that ther have sufficient canses. Furcber, Let
us intis place also suppose any event never ( casuat at for exam
Ple, Il e throrine Ambs.ace unon a paire of Dice. and sec if it must
net have boen necessary before it was chrovon; for, lecine it mas
Hlronn, et had a becinnine, und consequentiy a sufficient causeto
produce it, cnsistine parely in the Dice, parely in the on mard
thines, as the post: re o the parries hand, themeasure of force ap-
plicdbythe caster, the posture fthe prrs ofthe Table, and ihe
like; in sum, th re Was not ine mancins chat mas necessarity
requ’sire ro the producine of thar particular cast, and consequently,
that cast mas necessarily throion. For iit had noc bcen throvon,
th. re had manted somenhat r. quiire tothe thro: in ot il, and so
the cause had not becn srfficient. In the lil ronner it maybe
proved that cv ry other accident, bon contingent socver it secm, or
h.W e lantary socver ic be, is produced nec. Parily; Which is that
J. D. disentes acainst. The Came also may be proved inrhis
minner, Let the case beput for example) of the meather, Tis ne-
cessary etac comorron ic Mallrain, Or noc rain. Is thercsore
il be not necessary it Ball rain, it is necessary it Ball rot rain.
Othervise it is not necessary ih. + the proposirion, TEMtrall rain, Ox
ic Mallnocrain, Bould beerne. Plnom there are some that say.
it may necesarily becrue, th. + one o, the rro Ball come to pass bue
not s. ely thatic saltrain, or it Ball not rain. Whichis as much
asto say, One o themis necesarr. Vet neither of themis necessary;
Andther fore to seem ro avoid, thac absurdiry rhey matee a distin-
ction thar n: ther of them is erue decerminace bost indecerminate;
W ich distinction, crther Pienifies no more thanchis, One os them is
erue, bus me lnor not nhich, and so the nec essi y remains, thonoh
ve lnovit not: Or is che meaninz of the distinction benot that, it
has no m anins. An drhey miche as vell have said. Oncof them
is erue Tyeyrice, but neitber os them Tupaculice.