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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 37

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The machine reads it as

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  4. om
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  6. aisser
  7. Htea.
  8. River
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  14. cessicp
  15. fron
  16. for at
  17. cit as
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  19. WaS
  20. CON
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  26. that Liberty is usnally ascribed to Whatsoever Acent is not hin-
  27. dred. And when amandoch any thine Frcely, tere be many
  28. other Agenes immediate, that concur to the effect heincendeth,
  29. Wwhich more not Precly. bir necc (Parily: as vehen the manmo-
  30. vethtbe SmordFreelY, the Smord memrdeth necessarity, nor
  31. ean suspendor deny its consurrence; And consequently is the
  32. monmove not hinsels, the man cannor denr his concurrence.
  33. Z0 Which he cannot reply. unle(s he say aman oricinally can
  34. movehimself, for hich he wil be ablero find no Authority
  35. any that have bur taste dos thebenom’ edre of motion. Thenfor
  36. Contingent he under standet h not vohat it meaneth, for it is all
  37. one rosay it is Concingene and simply tos ay it is; savine that
  38. When they say simply ic is, they consider not hov or by whac
  39. means; but in Carine it is contineent tbey tell us they enom not
  40. Wwhetherncessarily or not. B ut the Bichop thinking C oncing ene
  41. toberhat hich isnoc necestary, insteados arcuine acainst OuE
  42. Hnomledee of the necessity ofthines tocome, argueth acainst
  43. thenecetts ic Celt. Acain he supposeth that Frec and C on-
  44. tincent causes miche have suspended or denied their concur-
  45. rence. From nhich it follometh chat Frce canses, and C’on-
  46. tincent causes are noi causes of themselves, but concurrent
  47. mith other causes, and therefore can produce nothine but as
  48. therare cuided by those causes rith which rherconeur; for il
  49. is strance, he Bould Cay, they miche have concurred aster ano-
  50. ther manner; for l conceave not how when this runnethone
  51. vay, andthat another, that they ean besaid roconeur, that is
  52. run tocerher. And thisbis concurrence of causes contincent,
  53. maketh (hesaith) the cast of AmbS.ace not tohave been ab-
  54. solutely nece (Cary. rhich eannot be conceavedanless it had
  55. hindred it; and then it had made some other cast nece (sary.
  56. perhaps Deux ace, mhich serverh me as mell. Por ebat mhieb
  57. hesaith of Culpendins his concurrence, of castins looner or la-
  58. cer, of alcerins ehe caiters Force. and che like accidents serve not
  59. to talee avay thenecessity of AMOS-aCC, othermise thenby mal-
  60. ins a necessier of Deux. ace, or orher cast char shallbethromn.
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  62. ne Drection, _c.

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 37. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0049?run=74