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# Title: B. D. S. Opera Posthuma (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 30; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 30)
# Folio 459, page id 782426638:0505
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Amdudum exoptaritibi adesse; sed tempus, asperaguehrems
non latis mihi fuerunt propitiae. Ouamris autem corpore abste
tam lonse lim remotus, animotamen Laepistime es praelens ico,
praesertim intuis seripris cum verlor, cague manibus tracto. Scd
quum non omnia, circa Definitiones, mihi sint clara, tui memor
ad halce literas seribendas animum appuli. Concului subtilis ingenii
Mathematicum. Borellum, qui de his rebus sic scribie. Defini-
tiones, inquit, adhibentur in Demonstratione, ut praemissa. Quare
necesse est, ut sint evidenter cognita, alias coenitio scientifica, seu
evidentissima ex iis acquiri non potest. Et alibi. Non temere. sed
maxima cautione eligi debet ratio structurae; aut essentialis passio
prima, ex notissima alicujus subjecti. Nam si Constructio, e passio
nominata sit impossibilis, runc non efficietur Definitio scientifica, ut
si quis diceret: Dua rectae lineae, (patium comprehendentes; Vocen-
tur Ficurales, essent Definitiones non Entium, e Impossibiles; es
propterea potins ienorantia, quam Scientia ex eis deduceretur. Dein-
de si Constructio; aut passionominata sit quidem possibilis; e vera,
sed nobis ienota, ait dubia; tunc bona Definitionon erit. Nam con-
clusiones abienoto, es dubioortae, incerta quoque, es dubia erunt:
ex ideo suspicionem, aut opinionem, non autem scientiam certam af-
ferent. A cujus opinione dissentire videtur Pacquer, qui autumat
ex Fallo pronunciato directe ad veram Conclutionem procedi pos-
sc, uri tibi notum. Clarius vero, cujus etiam sententiam inero-
ducit, sic seneit. Definitiones (inquit) sunt artis vocabula, neque opus
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