The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 267
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- fustice is an Accident, one of the Moral verrues, and Wis dome
- anotber, hom 60d is an Accident or aloral vertue? Tis more
- then che School. men or Metaphysicians can understand; nhose
- vorirines have trouble d my head mere then thoy Bould have done,
- is Thad tnoron that amon est somans senselesse disput s, there bat
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- comprehensible Wature of Cod, thar it is impossible chey sould
- speae incellisibly, or in other Languaze then Mecaphysique;
- herein; hey may contradict themselves. andnt perceave it; as
- he does here, henhesays, the Accribures ot Godarenoc di-
- verse Vercues or Qualicies in him, as they are in the Creatures,
- buc reallo one and che same wich ehe Dirine Fslence, and
- amonst chemselres, and accribured to C0d eo supply the de-
- fect oF our capaciey. Artributes are names andtherefore it is a
- contradiction, r0 Cay they are really one andthe same rith the
- Divine Fssence. But if he mean the Vernes sienifre d by the At.
- tributes, as Justice. Wisedome, Fternity. Divini: y. c. S0
- also they are Ver. nes, and not one errue, (Which is still a contra-
- diction,) and me sive those Aetributes to Cod, not to sheW that me
- apprehend hou they are in him, but to sienifie hon me thinte it best
- tohonour him.
- (1) CInThenext place he mill help me ro understand (he says)
- hor Eterniey is an indivisible point. The Dirine substance is in-
- dirisible; Buc Fcerniey is che Dirine substance. TheMajor
- is eridene, because Cod is actus simplicissimus; The MinOE
- hach been clearly demonstrared in my ansiver eo his las
- doube; and is contessed by all men, chac wtracloever is acrri-
- tured to Codis Cod.) The Major is (o far frombeine evident,
- chat actus simplicissimus signiheth nothins. The Minor, is said
- by some men, thonche by no man; for rhat soever is thoucht, il
- anderstood; And al that he hath el se vohere and here dilare d upon
- it, is as perfect non sense, as any man ever vrit on purpose to
- mahe merry mith. And sois that vobereby he ansvers tomy ob-
- jection that a point cannot comprehend al time, rhich is successive;
- Namely, his distinction. Thac a poine doch noc comprehend,
- all Time formally, 25 Time is succestire; buc eminently and Vir-
- uallus, as Fcerniey is intinice. Andthis, To day all Erernicy
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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 267. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0267?run=74