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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 254

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  1. (254)
  2. (b) TOF wtrich I save then chreereasons, one Was, thac
  3. actionsmaz De so egually circumscantiaced, chat reasOn CaNNOL
  4. sire a posicire sencence, buc leares cheelection to liberty or
  5. chance. TOchis he ansivers noc a word. ) There Was noncedof
  6. ansiver, for he hath very often inthis discourse contradicted it him-
  7. self, in that he maketh Reason eo be the erue root ot liberer,
  8. and men co hare more or lesse liberey as cher hare more or
  9. lesse ReaIOn. Hlom then can a manleare that to liberey when
  10. bis Pcason can civeno sentence. And for his leavine it to chance,
  11. if by chance le mean that rhich hath no causes, he destroreth Pro-
  12. vidence, and if he mean that rhich hath causes, but untnonn to
  13. us, he leavethit tonce ssity. Besides, it is false chac actious may
  14. bes0 equally circumstanciaced, chat Reo son cannor sive a po-
  15. fcire sentence. Por thouch in the thines to be electe d there may
  16. be an exact equaliry, et there may becircumstances in lim that
  17. is to elect, tomake him re solve upon thar of rhe rno rhich he consia
  18. dereth for the present, andto breale of all farther deliberation for
  19. this cause, ehas hemust not (touse bis ovn instance) by spendine
  20. time in vain apply neither ofthe plaisters, which the Chirureion
  21. sives him, 10 his mound. Another of his reasons mas, because
  22. Reoson doch noc weish every indiridual action to che vrter-
  23. moltsrain. True; Dut does it therefore follom, a man cives no
  24. sentence? The il therefore may follon the dictare os the jude-
  25. menc, rhether the manmeich, or noc mcich all that michibe
  26. veiched. His third reason mas becouse Pastions and Afections
  27. Tometime prevail asainst Judsmene. Iconfesse they prevail often
  28. aeainst Wisdome, nhichis it he means here by Tudsmene. But
  29. ther prevail not acainst the dictare ofche understandins, which
  30. he enovs is the meanine of Judsment in this place. And the Wil
  31. of a passi onate andpecviss fool, doth no lesse follon the dictate of
  32. that lirele understanding hehath, then the Wil of the misest man
  33. follemethhis misedome.
  34. (C) THe explainech the sense oFthe aserrion by thecom-
  35. parilon ofche last feacher, wheremith he Peems to be delighted, iso
  36. secins he uleth ic non thesecond eime. Buc lec him like it a5
  37. he Wil, ic is improper, For chree ReaTOnS.) T0 methis compari-
  38. son seemeth very proper, andtheretore. I made no scruple, (thonch
  39. not much delichred vithit, as beins no nem comparison) touse it
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  42. je
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  44. patiet
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  51. Mine
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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 254. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0254?run=74