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# Catalogue record: 4156 — Leibniz an Gerhard Meier (Bremen) für Johann Eberhard Schweling
# Incipit: Responsio ad celeberrimi Huetii censuram Cartesianae Philosophiae vide
# Date: 1691-01
# Sender: Leibniz — Addressee: Meier, G.; Schweling
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA II,2 N. 100
# Other printings: Erl.
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# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/00068567
# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Philosophie LH 4, 2, 7
# Folios: Bl. 6–7 (from the shelfmark LH 4, 2, 7 Bl. 6-7): 4 pages, canvases 11–14, page ids 00068567:0011 to 00068567:0014
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# Lines: 92 recognised on 4 of 4 pages, mean confidence 0.93
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## Folio 6r — 00068567:0011
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Presponsio au celeberrini Hlucti censuran Carus
91.
tetrande Shilosophiae videtur scripta à vro doctissime
et in Cartesu libris bene versato, sed nescro, an eq exqe
crcitato in veritate proporio Marte inquirenda
feentamam a paieee pepen
seltam ccummcum fncid
Mgisit.
Phincipium illad toties decantarum: Duicquid
clare distincteqe percipro; verum est; nobis parum
prodest, quam diu non satis exhibentur criteria
dari et distincti. Cuitibet sua sonnia adnodum
praxi aptas
manifesta videntur Veras notas explicuimus ali
quando in meditatione de veris falsisque edeis
Malebranchius fassus est, nullam se habere
ideam distinitam Mentis et cogitarionis quam
ceteri Cartesiani sibi habere videatur. Alu
dabitant an Corporis ideam distinctam habeant
SEaeceptum Cartesi de dificultate in partes
secanda aptas ad ean minuendam. eian parvi
momenti est, quandiu ars secandi hoc est
vera Analysis non est explicaca. Ntam qur
juncturas non novit, is in secando potius la
niat, quam anatonen exercet. Ia fit, ut
CM
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## Folio 6v — 00068567:0012
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peritus Analyfieusrem in partes minime con,
venientes resolvendo augeat sibi difficaltatem
uti experiuntur, qui difficilia problemata in
Mathesi non recte aggrediuntur.
Sertium Cartesu praeceptam ut a simplicius
bus progredianur ad composita, probun est, sed
cui non dicrus Aylas. At ne sic quidem mul,
tam proficitur, sine artificues à Cartesio non
explicatis. Nam qui iter illud a simplicitus
ad composita inscituet, sine magnetica quadam
directione, is diu per minuta vagabitur, et
ob brevitatem vitae carde admodum aliquid
reconditum et tapto molimine diquum praestabit
Quartum praeceptum, de perfecta enumeratione facienda et
bel. Sape plerumque difficile, et saepe inutile est, cum quaedam ad scopum sufficera
soleant, itaque id potissitnum artis est, combinationes utiles ab inutilibus secernere
Salde rgctur falluntur que Cartesiar, qui
putant se Cartesu Methodun seu invenieno
artem in ejus scriptis cenere. Cen ipse alicubi
in Existolis sese eam suppressisse fateatur, nec
Methodum suam sed de sua Methodo scribere
ac specimina ejus tantum exhibere voluisse
protestetur.
Licet autem non pucem Cartesu Metho,
dun inveniendi fuisse perfetam, uti res ipsa

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docet, cum videspus eum ad multa quae nunc
adtibito licet studio
in proclioi sunt ppervenire non potuisse non
dubito tamen quin praeclara quaedam artificia
habuerit, quie cum a sectatoribus ejus ignorari
soleant non mirun est, si interpretes potius
Magistri quam Maturae aguns
Haec igitur non eo animo dico, quasi spernam
Cartesu doctrinam, aut Cartesianos; libenter
enim fateor scientiam dumanam progressus non
contennendos hujus vuri operà fecisse et Car
tesianan, (quoties inaurs fiducia abest) aptiorem
esse ad progrediendum ulterius, quam eum, qui nil
nisi scholae placita novit; sed quod video plurimos
ubi Ssittacos Cartesu agere didicerunt, nullo
difficultatum superandarum experimento capto
sibi videri jam conscendisse:
Edita doctrina sapientum templa serena;
quo nihil magis veris profectibus adversum, et
cum generis humani damno conjundum est,
dum praeclara ingenia quae passim inter Cartesian
nos agnosco, nec Autorem responsionis in mininis
habeo) a vero studiorum labore, quo augere possent
scientias, ad frivolas repetitiones inanium placito.
rum traducuntur

## Folio 7v — 00068567:0014
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Luod Censuram Reverendissimi Epis cossi suesso
nensis allinet, multa merito admonuisse mihi
videtur, non nego tanen alicubi relictum sar
tesianis justae desensionis locum. sed efficacissi
mum respondendi genus erit, iudire monentem
inanem sui opinionem deponere, meptum et li
tisus natum sepe in Republica periculosum dectae.
studium abjicere, praeclora vetenum recentiorumque
inventa Cartesui medicationibus adjungere; (a2u
resium non transcribere tantum sed et initaro
et (quod ille fecit), adjicere aliquid ad humanas
opes, longiusque proferre gradum; cum tam nulta
agenda restent, ut quae Carcesius vec alii fecere.
exigui admodum momenti hactenus videaneu.
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