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# Catalogue record: 53482 — Leibniz an Des Bosses
# Incipit: Quaeritur, quomodo sententia vestra peri tu metusiasmu explicari possi
# Date: 1713-01-24
# Sender: Leibniz — Addressee: DesBosses
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA II (assigned, not yet published)
# Other printings: -Gerhardt, PhilSchr 2 S.473-475. -Janet (2.Aufl.) 2 S.573-575 (teilw.). -Zehetner: Briefwechsel mit Des Bosses, 2007, S. 288-291.
# Record in the Leibniz-Katalog: https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/de/extended-search?id=53482&katnr=30630
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# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/DE-611-HS-958680
# Title: LBr. 95 · DesBosses
# Folios: Bl. 186–187 (from the shelfmark LBr 95 Bl. 186-187): 4 pages, canvases 377–380, page ids DE-611-HS-958680:0377 to DE-611-HS-958680:0380
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=DE-611-HS-958680&page=377
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## Folio 186r — DE-611-HS-958680:0377
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me stat
viden avaeritur quomodo se
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ententia
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 vestra T8 ME186) ab M 8 explicari possit
anda est, tum secundum Hypothesin
merarum Monadum, tam secundum
Hypothesin substantiarum compositarum
Secundum _ priorem Hypothesin, quaeritur
in quo consistat substantia i
corpous  n seu compositi,
an in monadibus. an ocio in ipsis phaenomenis,
pehonenMontidabes
id est quaeritur exempli causa an anima
vermis in meo corpore hominis existentis,
 sit pars substantialis me humani
corporis, an vero nudum requisitum, et quiem
non melaphysicae necessitatis, sed quod in cursu
solum naturae requoratur;  quod ego malim,
quod si prius statiitis, utique dicendum est Moandes
panis et vinitolli, et Monates corporis Christi
earum esse loco. Sin vero Monades non sint
pars substantialis corporum; et corpora conso sita.
sint inera phaenomena; dicendum foret corporum
substantiam eorum consistere in phaenomenis
veris, quae p
Visionis videt isimue ungeli et beati, quibus res
vere videre ditum est. Itaque deum videre cum beatis percipere
sis
cogns videre corpus Cristi, ubi nos panem et
nobis panis et vinum supparet.
quodsi vulcarem sequimur Hypothesn
de substantiis corporeis vel compositis
dicerem, ut jam ixi, vinculum substantiale
seu additum Monadibus substantiale, quod substantiam
compositam formaliter consta constituit, posse mutari
n
salvis monadibus, quia ut dipi anima vermit
i
pracedente
mactente Epistola
mentem meam
exposui
et phaenone
realisat

## Folio 186v — DE-611-HS-958680:0378
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vermiculi non
id substantia corporis in quo est vermiculus
nec multiplicanda sunt Entia praeter incracula praeter
Ponadibus
necesitatem: Vinculum substantiale superadditum  ponatur existere:
est mihi absolutum quoddam, quod etsi in cursu naturae
s
accurate respondeat ponadum saffectionibus nempe
perceptionibus appetitibus, super naturaliotamen poter
t
atu potest ab iis esse independens, et manentibus prioribus
monadibus mutari, e aliisque Monadibus accommodari
Ita Monales panis et vini omni vinculo substantiali
carerent, re  quoad ipsas reducta adstatum
hypotheseos merarum Monadum. Accidentia autem
as
pariis X vini, sive sunt realia acuo atia, sive binculum
10
acci dentate tonadum) sive mera phaenomena
resultantia, manebunt Porro vincula substantial
videristaliter quam a me fit accepisse, quasi ogodum pro
ea prorebus absolutis habeo semuer ab
inde ab initio reationis extitisseputem. Sed mea
bs sententra admissis substantiis corporeis,
en vinculis subsantialibus, fatendum est denerationi
et corruptioni subjprere Nullam etiamnovi
monadum modificationem, vel substantialem vel
aclidenttelem, quae constituat substantiam compositam
prout rem accepisse viders numero tuo sexto;
neque quicquam in Monadibus admitto, isi
perceptiones et appetitiones. Vinculum
quod substantiam compositam facit, mihis nolim
vocare Accidens absolutum; quia mihi omne
ab solutum est substantiale,quod si accidens
inde facere velis, composrat
t su sed substantianper accidentalia constitui.
caistituentur. Cum siniglecius cm Aristotele insecutus
dicat accidens non esse sine subjecto, ostendit
Eccidens absolutum a se non admitti.
Nstim etiam distinguere Ens reausans
praenomena a vinculo substantiali, (ut facere videris n. 7
sui
hiaec duo enim mihi revera sunt idem. H) et mihi
et r et dicendum est, nasci ea et interre. Hot amnad
ita ut in monade
legi posit, cin corpori
corpus ejus insit
seu phaenomena
mareb manebunt
sed non in corpore fuisti
(numero 5D,

## Folio 187r — DE-611-HS-958680:0379
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 positis ergo substantiis compositis mihi
incomparabiliter facilius videtur, et convenientius
1
demere has reatsaris sinoment quam ipsas.
Monades, qua ut quod tecum destruere num. B
servatis Monadibus quam contra ut videns
malle num. 8.
Modifilatiores unius Monadis sunt causae ideales
modificatinum alterius monadis,
de quo agis, num. 17
Quatenus in una ratione Monade
apparent rationes quaedeum ad
modificationes in alia Monade
constituendasab initio rerum
moverunt.
infinitudo con–
tinui physici in Hypothesi merarum
Monadum non tam penderet ex
hypotesi ratione optimi, quam
ex principio rationis sufficientis
quia nulla est ratio limitandi seu
siniendi, sive alicubi sistendi
entinuum vero patheuratia
consistit in possibilitate, ut numeri
imera
ideo in eo necessaria est infinitudo
ex ipsa ejus notione
Caeterum mitateris sa mestater
ubi me videbis hastiferas henna
si ust
Anstriaca dare. luc excurrendi
animum sumsi cum in hernissaro
linis nuper apud Magnum Russo
=
num Tonartiam evocatus ea.
medium enim jam itineris contecram
Haerebo hic donec tempestas anni
modiatur. inde bonocui deque doum
redire sero. aelerum intelligo
fasciculum a E venisse que
in reditum meum differi oportet
nisi remitt velis.
tanquam in subjecto. Idque etiam heologorum
doctrinae convenit, ne album potundumque
colatur, quod
annoto adt
num. 16 duae
pistaae nuperacabitnam
au nogvidlo
uomoto Albedo
possit uniri angelo
nisi fiat albus, vel
album ejuniatur

## Folio 187v — DE-611-HS-958680:0380
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