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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 Parc I.
cher perceird sereral ldcas, Whereot
they themselres ivere noc the AuthOrS,
a5 noc bcins exciced trom Within, nor
dependins on che operation ot their
Wills, chis made em maintain, those Y
deas or Objects ot Perception had an
Fixistence independent ot, and wichour
the Mind, Without erer dreamine chac
a Contradiction as involved in chose
Words. Buc Philosphers havins plain-
ly scen, that the immediate Objects ot
Perception do noc Exilt ithout che
Mind, ther in lome degree corrected
themistake ot the Vulgar, but ac che
Camc time run into anocher wtich
scemsno less AbTurd, 2iZ. thac cherc arc
certam Objects rcally Exicting Wrichour
the Mind, or haring a sublistence di-
stinet trom being perceired, ot irhich
our Ideas, arc ontr Imases or Relem-
blance, imprinted by chole Objects on
theMind. And this Nocion ot the Phi-
losophers oms its Origine co che lamc
causc wich the former, namelr cheir be-
ins conscious thac cher ivere noc chic
Authors ot ther omnsenlations, wtuch
ther cridenels bneu vere imprinted
trom