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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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Existence ot Thines, Or pretend co any
Knomlese thereot, (o lons as Wre hare
nOC fix d the meanina ot chosc Words.
Thins Or Beins is the most general NTame
Ot all, ic comprehends under it tWvo
Kinds incirely distinet and heterogene-
Dus, and Wrtuch have nochins common
buc chertame, viz. Spirirs and Ideas. THC
Former arc Active, Indivisible, Incorrup-
tible Substances: The latter arc Inert,
Flcetine. Peristable Passions, Or Dependent
Beines, Which Cubsist noc by chemselres,
but arc supported by, or Exist in Minds
Ox Spiritual SuBltanCCS.
590. Ideas imprinted on the Senses
arc real Things, or do really Lxilt, chis
Wre do noc denr, buc e dens cher can
(ubls Withoue che Minds ertrich per-
ceirethem, or thac cher arc Relemblan-
ces ot anr Archeerves Existins Wichoue
cheMind: Since the very Being ot a Sen-
Cation or Idea consilts in beins percei-
red, and an Idca can be like nochina
buc an Idea. Again the Phings perceired
by Sense mar be termed fxternal, wichi
resard to cheir Orisine, in That chez arc
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