The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 213
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- i Figures, MethodSyncherique ex Analytique, P’allacies ofC om
- policion and Dirilion bere msof art. Lam not of his opinion.
- For these are no more terms of. Art in Losick. then Lines, FIBuIres,
- Sguares, Triansles esc. in the Mlathematicks. Barbara, Ce-
- IdrenE, and the rest that follon are rerms of Art invented fer the
- easier Apprehension of ronnemen, and are by jounemen understood.
- BuE the terms ofthe Schocl nith rhich Lhave found fault, have
- beeninvented coblind the understandine, and cannot be understosd
- by those that intend ro learn Divinity. And 10 his qnestion mhe-
- Hler ihe Ahoral Philosopher must quit his means and extreams,
- Lansmer, that thonchehey are not terms of Art, he oueht to quite
- them, whenther cannot be understood, and whenchey can- +0 use
- them rich. ly. And cherefore thonch meanS and CxErCaMS, be
- terms intellisible, vet LWould have them quit the placine of ver-
- tue intheone, and of vice in che other. But for his liberty et con-
- cradiction _ contrarietr, his necessirr absolure _ Hyporherical
- (is any moral Philosopher ever used them) then amay rmiththem,
- they serve for nothine but to seduce ronne Students. In like man-
- ner let the natural Philo (opher no more mention his incentional
- Species, his underkandino Agene and Patiene, his Recepeire
- and F ductire pover oEche maccer, his qualities infulxe or in-
- Auxae, Symbolae or Disymbola his Temperament ad pondus and
- ad julticiam. Fle may kcep his pares Hlomoseneous and Hetero-
- Geneous; buc his Simpathies and Antipathies, his Antiperistasis
- and the libe, names of exeuses, rather then of causes, L mould have
- himflins arvay. And forthe Astroloser (untesse he means Astro-
- vomer) lvould have him throm amay his mhole trade; bur is he
- mean astronomer, thentheterms of ApoExum, and Perisxeum,
- Arrique. Ancarrique, SEgnator, Zodiacte Zenith, Meridian,
- FTorizon, Zones, ∞c. are ne more terms of Art in Astronomi.
- then a SaW, or atlatchee inthe Arr of a Carpenter. Ile cites no
- terms of Art for Ceometry. Lmas afraid he mould have put Lines,
- or perhaps Fqualiey or Inequalier for terms of Art. So that noW L
- lenoi not har be those terms he thintes Y mould cast amay in
- Geomerry. And lastly for his Mletaphysician, Tmonid have him
- quit boch his terms and his Profession, as beine in cruch (as Plu-
- carel. aich in the beginnine of the lise ofAlexander rhe Coreat ) norat
- all profitable to learnins but made onely for an essay, to the learner;
- an
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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 213. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0213?run=74