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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)
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Of the Principles
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Terr d, cannot beunderctood inthecom-
mon Sense ot thole Words, i must
cheretore be caken in Pome ocher Senle,
buc Wrhrac chac i5 ther do noc explaim.
S0 chac evhen I consider thC ENO PaNES
Or Branches Wtuch make the ligniticari
on ot the Words Material Substance, L
am conrinced there is no diltimet mean-
IBe anvext to them. Buc Why Moud
re trouble our sclres any Farcher, iI
discussins ehis Macerial Substratum Ox
Suppore ot Figure and MOtION, _SC.
docs it noc suppole ther hare an Ex-
istence Without the Mind: And IS nOL
this a dircet Repugnaner and altoge
cher Inconccirable:
5 18. BUE thO it vere possible thac
solid, Figur dmorcable Subltances may
Exist without che Mind, correspondins
to tho Ideas Wwe hare ot Bodies, ret how
15 IE Possible For us to know chis : Fi-
ther e must lno it by Sense or by
Rcason. AS For our Senles, by them
Wve hare the Knolese ontr ot oursen-
Pations, Ideas, or thole chings thac arc
immediacels perceir dby Sense, callem
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