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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 70

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  1. 10
  2. tho Ducstion, ve are to lenor ihe difforence between these
  3. ehree. successitu, Spontancity, and Liberiy; und becanse l
  4. thouche he enem that it could xot be eleare dvithont under
  5. standinq what is Will, had reasontochinte that Spontancity
  6. was hisne word for Will. Ana presencly afier lone Chinss
  7. acc Hccecary, aVd HOC VOlUREAEY OT SpOnEanEOUS; lome
  8. chircsareboch Necellary ard Voluncary. These mords, Yo
  9. luntarr and spontaneons so put rocetver, vouldmate any
  10. manbeleeve Spontaneom vese put as explicative of Volun-
  11. caru; forit is no onder in The eloquence of the 30h0ol men.
  12. Therefore presently after, ihese mords Sponcaneies conistsin
  13. 2 contormiry ot che Appecice, cicher incellcetual or Censirive,
  14. sionifiethat Spontaneity is a conformity or likenessof the appe-
  15. ertero the obiect: Whehto me soundeth as if he had said, that
  16. tbe apperite is libe the Obiect: Which is as proper as if hehad
  17. said the Huncer is like ihe Meat. Is this be the BictroPS
  18. meanins, as it is the meanine of theWoras, he is a very fine
  19. Philosopher. Buc hereafcer LWill vemure no more to say his
  20. meaninzu is ilis oc thac, especially vere he nseth terms of
  21. eArt.
  22. CThiralys he saith, Laleribe lpontaneicy oneis eo FoOIS.
  23. Chilaren, mad Men ana BCaCtS. Buc l actnowledee spon-
  24. taneity hach place in rataonilmen, _c.
  25. T resolve to have no more to do mith Spontancity. But L
  26. desirc the Reader 1o takenotice, that the common pcople, on
  27. ahose arbitration dependeththe signification of ords in com-
  28. conuse amons the Latines and Greeks did call all actions and
  29. motions Whereofther did perceiveno cause, Spantancons, and
  30. avrouara: Y Cay, not those actions which had no canses, for
  31. att astions have their canses, but those actions
  32. hose causes they did not perceive. Sothat Spontancons ac a
  33. ceneralname comprehendea many actions and motions of ina-
  34. nimate creatures; as thefalline of beavy thines donnmards,
  35. hicbtheychouche spantancons, and that it they vere not hin-
  36. dred, they mould discend of their omnaccord. It comprehen-
  37. ded also alt animal morion, as becinnine fromthe Willor Ap-
  38. petite; because the causes of the illand Appetite beine not
  39. perceivedus eheu supposedas ihe Bisrop deth ibat chey vere the
  40. canses

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 70. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0082?run=74