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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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vaschreun: Ee char makes chelo co be necessari causes, Ido
nas mondor ifhe make all effects necelsary effects. TFany onc
otchese canses beconrinsene. it is susticient co render che east
concingene; and nou chacchey are 2Il so contingene, vec he will
needs hare the effect eobe nocessarr. And soic is whenche
castischromn, buc noc betore rhe cast maschroun, irhich he
undercook eo prore. Who can blame him For heins lo angry
nich che School. men, and cheir distinctions oF necesey into
absoluro and hypocherical, sceins chey touch his Frechold(0
nearVs
Buc choush huis inttanco ofrainins eo morron be imperti-
nenc, 25 beins no tree action, vec because he criumptis (0
much in his arxumene, Twill noc Rick co 80 a licele oue ol my
aycomeot a friend. ForP contels, che ralidier ofthereason
had been che lamo, ithe had made ic oF a trec action, as thuS:
Ficher PMaII finis ehis reply comorroir, or P Mall noc sinimti
ehis replyto morrem, is a necellarr propoticion. Buc because
he Mhall noc complain of ans ditadrantasse inthe alceration ot
his cerms; P will for once advencure axon hie Mover nerain.
AndErH, P readily admic tris major chac chis propolicion (either
iE willrain co morrom, or ie will noc rain eo morron, is necella-
rilyerue. For oftuvo contradictory proposicions, the one must
et necessier becruo; because no chird can be siven. Buc lis
minor, chac ic contd net he necessarily erue exeopt one of the Mlom
bors vere necessarils enne, is most falle. And so is his proof like.
vise, chac is reicher the one nor the orher ofthe Members be ne-
cessarily erne, it sannot be affirme d chat either the one, or the orher
is true. A conjunet propolicion may have boch paresFalle, and
vec che proposicion beerue, as is chesuu mine, ie is day, is a
erue proposicion ac midnishe. AndT. FI. confellectr as muet.
DCumb. 19. YF Battlive TAall ear, is a necessary proposirion,
ehae is e0 say, it is necossary ehat that propostrion sould be true
mhensocven actored. Dur it is not tho necessiry of thethine, nor is
it therefare necessary that che manshall live, or that the manstall
ons. And (0 Z. FI. procceds, Ido not uso ro forriste my distincti-
ons with suoh reasons. Duc ie seemeth he hach Forsoecenhim-
SelF, ond is contented wich such poor Forcificacions. And ehouet
Boch pares ota disjunctire propotrion cannoe be Palse, becaule
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