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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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32
Of the Principles
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ho can it be lnomn, thac che Phinge
Wrhich arc Perceird, arc contormable
to thole wrtuch aec not Perceir d, Or fix-
IA Withont che Mind?
587. Colour, Figure, Motion, FX
cension and the like, consider d onty a5
(0 mans Sensarions in theMtind, arc per
fectir bnorrn, chere beins nochins in
them irhuch is noc Percoir d. Buc it they
arelookd on asHNoces or Images, reter-
Cd to Thines or Archetypes Existins wich
ouc theMind, chen arc re inrolved all
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anccs, and noc cho real Qualities ot
hinos. Whac mas bc che Excention,
Fisure, or Motion ot aur Thing rcally
and abolucelr, or in ic selt, its impol.
Sible For us eolno, buc ouly the pro.
portion or relation chey bcac 10 oui
Senles. Phinss remamins the lame, our
Ideas raer, and irhich et chem, or even
avhecher ans et ehem at all, represent
the eruc Dualier really Eixistins in che
Thing, sc 15 Ouc of our Rcach to decer-
minc. So that, FOr ought WC HnOW,
all re Scc, Flear, and Fecl, may bcontis
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