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# Title: LBr. 854 · Seckendorff
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Tantum quaritur, otrum sit talis aliqua essentia, seu (quia
esentiam rei dari, seu rem possibilem esse idem est) otrum
ens per suam essentiam existens sit possibile? Saltem
enim inter certa Metaphysicae verae theoremata recenseri
potest haec propositio: 3i Ens necessarium est possibile
sequitur quod existat. Cartesius ergo debebat probare
Fns perfectissimum (quod inter caeteras perfectiones etiam
existentiam utique involueret) esse possibile. hane
existere Deum, modo sit possibilis, patet ex terminis
sive is Ens perfectissimum definiatur, sive saltem
Ens ase, vel Ens necessarium. Quol Diuinae Essentiae pri-
uilegium sane non videtur contemnendum. Contingentium
enim rerum existentia non ex earum essentia sive possibili-
tate, sed ex DE1 voluntate, vel, quod eodem redit, haomo-
nia terum oniversali sequitur.
Nondum ad manus meas venerunt mutua Arnaldi et
Malebranchii scripta EEgo ut Malebranchii ingenium ma-
gnifacio, ita aliquando in elegantissimis cogitationibus
soliditatem requiro. Zuamdiu scriptores putabunt suffi–
cere, ut vera credantur, quae clare et distincte perci-
pere sibi videntur; chimaeras habebimus squanto rectius
Euclides, qui ne quid imaginationi daret demonstrauit,
trian-