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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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194.
Of the Principles PaxE I.
iltence consilts outr in being perceird:
Whercas a Soul Or Spiric iS an actire
beins, Whose Exiltence consists noc in
Beins perceird, buc in perceirins Ideas
and Thinking. Icis, cheretore, necel-
Paer in order to prevent Equirocation
and contounding Natures pertectir dis-
aorecme and untike, thac re dictin-
suistr becreen spirit aud Idea. Vid.
Sect. ZXVII.
5 140. In a large Sense, indced, we
mar be laid to have an Idca ot Spirit,
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theWord ochervise ve condnoc aftirm
Ox deny any chins OE IE. MOTCOVCE, aS
ve concerre the Idcas chat arc in the
Minds ot ocher Spirits, br means otoux
Omn, Wvhich re suppose to bc Relem-
blances oF them. So Wre Hno ocher
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them, it havins a like relpeet to otter
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perccird has to chole Ideas perccird
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