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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 236

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  1. (236
  2. chines, thonghchey may, andare most osten decerved by eivine
  3. unto them vorone termsor appellations, different fromthose wtich
  4. are commonty used, ant constirured to sien fre their conceptions.
  5. And therefore they that study to artain the cerrain lenomledee of
  6. truth, de usero set dovon before band all the terms they are to
  7. expresse themselves by, and declare in rhat sense they sal
  8. use them constantly. And bythis means, the Peader havine an
  9. ldea of every thine there named, cannot conccive amisse. But
  10. henaman fromthebearins of a ord hath no Idea os the chine
  11. serified, butonely of the sonnd, and of the Letters whereof the
  12. mordis made (hichis that he here calleth MenEaII CerMS) it
  13. is impossible he pould conceive ariche, or brine forth any chine
  14. but absuraiey; ashedothhere, whenhe says, thac mhen Tarquin
  15. delivered his commands to his son, by onely Arikins of che COpS
  16. OF ehie Poppies, he did it hy Mencal terS. A5 if tostrick of
  17. the head of a Poppivere Mentalrerm. It is the sound and the
  18. Lerters that makerh Lim thinh Flicicus and Imperacus somemhat.
  19. Andit is the same that makes him say (forthinte it he cannot) that
  20. toil, or choose, is dranon, or allured, or ferehst ont of ihe porver
  21. eo Wil. For dramine cannor beimarine d but of bodys; and there
  22. fore toil, to speake, to rrite, to dance, r0 leape, or any may to be
  23. m. ved, cunnot be said intellicibly to be dravn; much lesse to be
  24. drannont of a Porver, that is tosay, ont of an abiliry; for What-
  25. soever is drannont, is dravon ont of one place intoanother. le
  26. that can discourse in ehis monner in Philosophy, cannot probably
  27. be thouche able ro discourse rationally in any rhine.
  28. (P) Hlis octer objection against chis distinction ofche ACS
  29. Ofche Will inco Elicire and imperate is oescuriey. Michr ie
  30. not (Paich he) have beenas casitr said in Enclist, a voluntary
  31. Action Tes, ic mixhe hare been said as easiIy, buE nOT aS cry
  32. ly, nor 25 prOPerIY.) Fle says, thar Actus Imperatusis mhen
  33. a man opens or Burs his eyes at che command ofthe Wil.
  34. Cay rhen a manovens and surs his eyes accordinq eo his Wil, that
  35. it is a voluntary Action; aud Lbelieve me mean one and che same
  36. ching. Wherher ef us speate moreproperly, ormorerruly, let the
  37. Reader Zudge.
  38. (9) TBuc his mistates are (o chick, 8c. Twill do my dury
  39. eo Ete lim the righe Was. Firk, no Acts which arc pro-

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 236. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0236?run=74