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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 143

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  28. Lmouldhave doneso, but for Bame. Free, Contingene, and
  29. Necessaey, aronot mords that can bejoined to Means or EAdS,
  30. but to AgeneS and ActiOnS; that is tosay, to thines that moove,
  31. or are moved. A Frec RsenE beinq chat mhose motion, or
  32. action is not hindered nor stopt. And a Frec Action, that mhich
  33. is produced by a Free Acent. AConeinsent Agene, is the
  34. Same with an a Gene simply. But becanse men foribe most part
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  48. Eythis, that he is not Frec eoWilI, or mhichis all one, he js
  49. not Mtaster os his fature ill. Afcer muchunorderly discourse

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 143. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0155?run=74