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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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134
Of the Principles
PaTET
thc Existence ot sensible Things. BUE
aII this Doubetulness, Wrhich (0 Bevil-
ders and Contounds che Mind, and
makes Philosophy ridiculous in che Fyes
OE the Worid, vanithes iE We annex a
meanins to our Words, and noc amule
our selres ich the terms Absolute, FX
ternat, Exist, ecc. Signitrins Wve lnon
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doube ot my orn Beins, as of the BC-
ino ot those chings, Wtich P actually
perceire br Sense: IE beinq a manifest
Contradiction, that any sensible Object
Mondbcimmcdiatels perccir dor Sisht
Or Touch, and, ac che Camc time, have
no Exiltence in Naturc, lince che very
Existence ot an unchinkins Being, con-
Slts in beine perceiod.
689. Noching scems ot more Impor-
tance, torards Frcctins a tirm Syltem
ot sound and real Rnowlege, rtrich
mar be Proot against che ANaults ot
Scepticism, than to lar che besimnins in
a distinet Explication, ot vrhacis meant
Dy Thino, Reality. Existence: For in vain
all We Dispure, concermINS thc rCaL
xistene