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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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31C
iie be a rixhe disjunction, ehe Members are repusnane, Where
ot one pare is infallibly erue, vec vary buc che proposition a
liccle eo abace che edee or che disjunctions, and vou Mall Ande
chac wtich Y. PT. Paich eo Beerue, thac it is pot ihe necessi, et
ehe thine wrtrich makes che proposicion co be truc. ASFOL
example varv ic chus: L knoW char either it will rain to morron,
er thas is will not rain ro merroir is a crue proposition: Buc ic is
nOE erue chac L HnoW ic will rain co morron, neicter is ic true
chacI Know ic willnoc rain comorro: Wheretore the certain
erueh et che propolition doch noc prore, chac cirher otehe
Members is determinacely erue in present. Truch is a contor-
micy oF cheunderstandins co chethins knomn, Whereot speect
is an interprecer. IFthe understandins agrec noc wich chechine
ic is an errour, it che mords axree noc mich che understondins it
is a lic. NNow chechins knomnis Hnoun cither in it selF, or in
ies CauseS. TFic De Hnown in ic leIF, as ic is, ehen WC expreNe OUE
apprehension of it in words ofche presenccence, as ihe sunis
risen. IF ic De knonn in ies cause, we expresse our selves in
Words oEche Fucure cense, 25 eo morron will be an Fclipse of +he
Moon. Buc if we neicher hnon ic in ies selF, nor in ies causes,
ehien chere mas be a Foundacion ofcrucH, buc there is no sien
decerminace cruth ofic, chac We can reduce IE INEO a FrUC pFODOL
Tition, e cannoc lay it dochrain tomorrou, or ic dochnoc
rain eomorron. Thac ere noc onely False Buc absurd, We can-
noc poleirelv Cay ic willrain co morron, because we do noc
know ic in ies causes, cither how chey are decermined, or chac
chey are derermined, Wheretore the certieude and eridence of
the disjunctire proposition is neicher Founded upon chac which
will be actually comorrom, for ic is granced chac ve do noc
know chac; nor vet upon che decermination ot the coules, For
etien e ould noc lay indifferenely, cirher ic willrain, or ic will
noc rain, bue posicirels ic willrain, or posicirely ic willnoc
rain. But ic is prounded upon an undeniable principle, chat ot
tuo coneradictor propositions, the one multnecellarilu be
erue. (f) Andcheretoreco Pay, cirtrer ehis, or chac willintal
libly be, bur ic is noc yet decermined Whecher chis, or chac MMaII
be, isno such senCelesse asserrion ehae ic delerved a Y prprice T_
paralice, buc an eridene eruth wrhich no man chas hack his eres
in his head can doube ot.