The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 26
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- otnimsel sofarre as tbey are sienifieant, mate acainst bim.
- Fonover wharsoever thines there is dominion, those thines are not
- Frces and thereforea mans actions arenot Free. Andif a man
- determine himself, ihc 9)uestion nill stil remain what determi-
- nedbim to determine himself in that manner.
- (4) Thare peruled chis Preatise, weighed Z. II. his an(-
- vers, considered his reasons, _C.
- This and thatmhich folloreth, istalline tohimsels at ran-
- dome, till he come ro allendee that rrhichhe calleth an old rule
- rhich is this, (c) Whacsoereris, When ic is, is necessarily
- (025 ic is. Thisis no absoluce necestiey, buc onely uxon
- suppolicion chac a man hach decerminedhis omn liberer.
- _c.
- IFibe BistroB chinte that Lholdno other Z cocssicy than thac
- erhichis expressed inthat old foolistrule, he neither understand.
- ethme, ner what the mord Neceltary sienisicth. Necessary is
- hat Which isimpossible co be ocherwise, or chacwhich can-
- nocpossibly octiermiso cometopasse. ThereforeNeceslari,
- Postible, and Impossible, baveno sienification inreference to
- time past, or time prelene, but onelycime co come. Ais He-
- cectary, and his in sensu compotico sienifie nothine; My
- Necellary is a Necellary from al Fternicy; aud yet not incon-
- sistent mitherue Liberry, mhich doch not consist in determinine
- it self, but in doine what the rill is determine d unto. This do-
- minion over ic selF, and this senus COmDOTIcUS, andthis, de-
- cermininsicselt; andthis, necellarils is whenicis, are con-
- fusedand empey mords.
- (E) IFctie chainoF Necessiey be no stronger, bur chac it
- may bo napped lo casils in sunder, exc. by che Cisnification
- Ofvour Lordchips delire, and my modest increaey, then we
- may lately conclude chachumane attairs, c.
- Whether my L.Ords desire, andthe Bistiopsmodest intreaty mere
- enouch eo produce a Will in me to rrite an ansmer tohistreatise,
- rithont other concurrent causes. Tamnot sure. Obedience tohis
- Loraip did much, Cmycivilieyts the Bimrop did sommhat, e
- perhaps there vere other imacinations of mineoron, that contri-
- bared their part. Batthis Tam sure of, that alltoecrber they vere
- sufficient to frame my millthereto; and mhatsoever is sufficient to
- prodHe.
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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 26. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0038?run=74