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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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d
Of the Principles
ParEI
for the Duration or Perlererance ot tho
Existence ot ThingS, Phare nochins
more to add concernins it, atcer Wtrat
has been alreadr Caid, on chac subicet.
Fortherest, this Celebraced Authorholds
there is an Absolure Space, Wrhich, beins
unperccirable to sense, remans in ic selt
Timilar and immoreable: And Relatire
Spaccto be the meature thereot, Wtuch
beins moreable, and detin d by uS Si-
cuation in respect et Sensible Bodies, is
vulgariy catcen for Immoreable Spacc.
PlaCO RCD CFneS, TO DCFHaE PATEOFSPaCC
Wrhich is occupied br anr Bodr. And
accordins as che Spaccis AbIoluLE OE
Relatire, (0 also is the Placc. Absolute
Notion is laid to bc the Tranclation ot 2
Bodr, trom Absolure Place to ABIolute
Place, as Relatire Mocion is, trom one
Relatire Place co anocher. Nobecause
the ParES OF ABIOlure SpacC, do noc FaII
under our Senles, instead ot them WC arC
obliged to ulc their Sensible Ncalures:
And (0 detine both Place and Motion
wich respect to Bodics, Which Wve re-
sard as immoreable. Buc IE is Caid, in
Philosophical Maccers vre must AbAraCI
ErOI