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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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man maytake the beishe ofthe Bisops Lozick. In our Climare
the natural causes do noc produce rain (o neceslarilu ac sex
times as in Pome Fastern Couneries. Theretore they do noc
produce rain neceslarily in our Climate, then when chey do
produce ic. And acain e cannoc lay (0 cercainty and infalli-
bly, ic will rain eo morrom, or ic will noc rainto morron,
cheretore it is not necessary cictier chacir Mouldrain, or chap
ic Chould nOE raIn LO MOrTON; as if norhine vere necessary the
necessity whereos me tenom not. Another reason hesaith; why my
instances are imperrinent, is becanse chey extend onely eo an
EPochetical necestier, that is, that che necessiry is n.t in the
antecedent causes, and thereupon challensethme for the cre dit of
mycanse, toname somo reason hon che caster vas necesItared
Erom wichoue himselt eo applr just so much force tothe cast,
and reicher more nor lesse; or Whac necessier chere was wty che
caster must chrom into chat Pable racher then the octier, or chac
che Dice must FaII just upon chac pare of. he Table betore che
cast Wasthrown. Flere again from our ignorance of the particular
causes that concurrins make the necessity, he inferreth that there
Was no such necessit, at all; mhich indeed is thar which hath in all
ehis question deceived him and all orher men, that actribute events
ro forrune. But L suppose he mill not deny thar event tobe necessa-
ry mhere all the causes of ibe cast, and their consurre ce. andthe
cause of etat concurrence are forchnomn, and mieht betold him-
thonch P cannot tell him. Secing therefore Cod foretenovs them
ail, the cast mas necessary, and that from antecedent causes from
eternity, rhichis ne Fyporherical necessity.
And mhereas my arcument to prove, tharrainins EOmOrrON,
aF iC MaII chen rain, and noc rainins co morrow it ic Mall chen
nec rain, mas herefore necessary becanse octerwile chis disjun-
cive propolirion, ic Mall rAIn OP NOEraIN EO MOErOW, Is noc ne-
cellary, he ansmereth thac à conjunet provosition, mavhave
boch pares False and vecihe proposicion becrus, as itche Sun
Sine ic is daz, is a erie proposition ac midniehe. Trhathas a
conjunet proposition to do mith this in question, bich is disunctives
On what be ehe parrs of this proposition, iF ehe Sun chine it is day ?
Et is not made oftuo propositions, as a disjunctive is; bat is one
simple proposition, namely ehis the sinins ofthe Sun is day. Fither
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