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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 206

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  1. (206)
  2. et
  3. tion against liberty ot exercise, and liberer ot specifcation, i5
  4. ameer mistake, which sronsmeeriy trom noc ristuly under-
  5. sandins whac liberey oF specification; or contrarierr is. A Ii
  6. berer ot specificarion, Paichhe, is a liberey to do, Or not
  7. eo do chis, or chac; in particular. Upon becter adrice
  8. he Will find, chac ehis which he calls a liberey ot specification.
  9. is a liberey of contradiction, and noc oEspecificarion, nor ot
  10. contrarietr. Tobetree to do or noc to do, chis or chac parti-
  11. cular sood, is a liberey of concradiction, (o likewisero be tree
  12. to do ornocro do chis, or thac particular evill. Buccobe tree
  13. co do boch sood anderill, is a liberey ofcontrariee, which
  14. extendsto contrary objects, or to diverle hinds oFchins5. 50
  15. hisreasonto proore, thac a liberer oF exercile cannor be wich.
  16. ont a liberey ot specificarion, Falls Aac rothe ground. Andhe
  17. may lav aside his Lenten license for anocher occasion. Iam a
  18. Mamed co insist upon chese chines which are (0 evidene, chat
  19. no man can quection them who doch underttand chem.
  20. (5) And here he falls into anocher inrectire against distin-
  21. ctions, and Scholastical exprections, and che Doctors of the
  22. Church, nho by this means yrannized over the understandines of
  23. other men. Wrhac a presumption is this for one privare man
  24. Who willnoc allon human liberey eo ochers, eo actume eo him.
  25. SelF such a license, eo control (o Magitrally, and eo censure of
  26. FColsisnOrance and crrannisins over mens judements, vea, a5
  27. causes oF cherroubles and cumules irhich are in the Worid, che
  28. Doctors ot the Church in seneral, Wtro hare Rouristred in all
  29. ases and all places, orly for a tew necessarr and innocent di
  30. sinctions. Pruly Caid Plurarch, chac a iore ese is oftended
  31. ich chelislic oFche Sun; (h) WVhacchen, must ehe Losicians
  32. lay aside their Airst and second Incentions: cheir Abstracts and
  33. Concrets, their Subjects and Predicaces, their Modes andFi-
  34. Sures, cheir Mechod Synchetick and Analyrick, their Fallacies
  35. oFComposition and Dirision, esc? Must che moral Philoso.
  36. pher quitehis means and exrremes, his pricipia concenita es ac-
  37. quisira, his liberer of contradiction and contrarierr, his ne-
  38. celliey absolure and hypocherical, ec? Must che nacural Phii
  39. lolopher sire over his incentional Species, his understandins
  40. Aen and Paciere, his recepeire and eductire pover ofche
  41. MatTeT,

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 206. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0206?run=74