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# Title: Wherein the chief Causes of Error and Difficulty in the Sciences, with the Grounds of Scepticism, Atheism, and Irreligion, are inquir'd into (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 52)
# Folio 44, page id 797331344:0056
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44
Of the Principles ParE I.
perceire it, or thac some other Spirie
aetually does Perceire it. There Was
aAOdOr, 1. e. IC WaS Smelc; TherCWaSa
Sound, 1. c. IE was Hlcard; a Colour
Or Fisure and it was perecir dbr Sighe
Or Touch. ThIS iS aII chac I can un-
derstand by chesc and che like Expressi-
OnS. For as to whac is faid oF the AB-
solure Existence ot unchinkins Things
Withour anr relationto theic being per-
ceird, chac is to me pertectlr Onincel-
ligible. Theic Esse 1S PercipI, nOL IS IL
vossible cher Mou d have anr Existence.
out ot ehc Minds or chinkins Thingo
Wrhich perccire chem.
5 4. Teis indecd an Opinion strangely
prcrailins amonost Men, thac Houles,
Mountains, Rirers and in a Word iII
sensible Objects hare an Existence Na-
cural Or RCal, distinet from their
beins perceir d br che Onderstandivo.
recat an APsurance and
Acquiescence foerer, chis Pcinciple may
bc encertained in the World: Vet Wvho-
ever MaII Find in his Fleare eo caIl it in
Duection may, it Imistakenot, perceire