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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 194

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  1. (194)
  2. Wiil, Becduse Hehach teec and a loconmocire Facules. Judse
  3. wichoue prejudice, wshrae a miserable subcertuse is chis, which
  4. mary men conAde (0 MSeh iin.
  5. emprisoned or fercered, is he cherefore Free ro walk where he
  6. X. F.
  7. ertaim dictinctions whiei he luppolins may be
  8. broust ro his arsumenes areby him
  9. reIOred.
  10. P FE. saith, aman mayperhaps ansver, thar ehe necessity ot
  11. A R thinsbela by him, is not a Sioical necessity, but a Chri-
  12. Rian necessity, 5c. but this dstinction Phave not used, nor in-
  13. decd have ever beard b. fore. Nor de Tthinte any man could mate
  14. Sioical a.d Christian eno inds of necessitis, thonch they may
  15. betmokinds of doctrin. Nor have Ldrann my ansver tobis ar-
  16. emones fromthe authority of any Sect, but from the nature of
  17. the thines themsclves.
  18. But here Lmust take norice of certain mords of his in this place,
  19. as makins acainst his orn Tenet, rhere al the causes, saith he-
  20. beins jorned rozether, and subordinate one to anorher, do matee
  21. but one rotalt cause, I any one cause, much more the first, in
  22. the whole series os subordination of causes be necessary, it derer-
  23. mines the rest, and wirhont dobt nenheth tt e effect necessary.
  24. Por chat rhich Lcall the nicessary cause of any effect, is the joy.
  25. ringe toceth. r of al canes subordinate 10 the fiest into one toral
  26. Consc. T5 any 0:c o those saithbe, especi illy the terst, pr duce ils
  27. effect necessarily. thon al the rest are d. termin d, and the effect
  28. alsonecessary. Nor, it is manifest, that the first cause is a ne-
  29. c. sary causeos al ch: effects rhat are next, and immediat toit,
  30. andihe efore by his omnreason, ali effects are necesary. Nor is
  31. c’at distinction of necessary, in respect of the first cause, and
  32. nec sary in respeet of lecond causes mine; et does (as be vell no-
  33. +) impli a contradiction.

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 194. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0194?run=74