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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 279

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  1. 2
  2. ro understand a thine is to imazine it; that ro hope and fcarare to
  3. imarine thethinzs hoped for and feared. T he difference bermeen
  4. themis, that mhen me imasine the consequence of any thine, ve
  5. are said 10 consider rhat thins; and when me have imacine d ans
  6. thine fromasien, and especially fromthose fiens, we call names,
  7. We are said ro enderstand his meanine that maleththe fien; and
  8. nhex ve reason, re imarine the consequence of affirmations, aud
  9. necations jeynedtocether; and when We hope or fear, me imacine
  10. thines coodor hurtful to our selves; insomnch as all these are but
  11. iracinations, diversty named. from different circumstances, as
  12. anr man may perceive as easily as he can looke into his ovnthonchts.
  13. But 10 him that thinketh not himself upon the thines whercof, but
  14. upon the moras rhere mi:hhespeaketh, and taketh those mords on
  15. trust from pusted Schoolmen, it is not onely hard, basc impossible to
  16. beknomn. Andehis is ehe reason that mahethlim jay Lmale
  17. Deliberation he lnors not what. But hor is de liberation defined
  18. byhim. Ttis (saithhe) an inquiry made by reason, whecher chis
  19. Or chatdefinicely considered, bea g00d and Ac means; or in-
  20. definicely, whac are good and fc means eo be chosen For actain-
  21. ins fome wistred end, If it iere not his custome to say, the under-
  22. standine understandeth, the Wil willerh, and so ofthe rest of the fa-
  23. culries Bould have believe d that when he Cays deliberarion is an
  24. inquiry made by reason he meanethan inguiry made by the man
  25. that reasoneth; for so it will be sense: But the reason rhich a man
  26. useth in deliberation, beine the same thine thatis called Delibe-
  27. ration, his Desirition, that Deliberation is an inquirys made by
  28. reason, is nn more thenis he had said; Deliberation is an inquiry
  29. made by Deliberation; a Definitien cood enonch to bemade by
  30. a School. man. Nor is the rest ofthe Definition alcocether as it
  31. Bouldbe; for there is no such thine as an indefinice considerari-
  32. On oFWtrac are good and tic means; but amanimacinine first one
  33. t’ins, then another, considereth them successively and sinsly eacts
  34. one, Whether it conduceth to his ends or not.
  35. T. II.
  36. s Loode. Ial in all deliberations, tharis ro say, in
  37. all alternare succession of contrary appetires, the last is that
  38. Which ne cal therril. es is immediat ly before the doine of the acti-
  39. b

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 279. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0279?run=74