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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 288

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  1. (288)
  2. done; forsome mords are so generat et at they cannot admir a more
  3. general in tbeir definition. Bat Why, this oucht to be a Lam of de
  4. finition. Ldoubt it mould trouble him ro find the reason; and there-
  5. fore Treferr him. (hesall sive me leave sometimes rocire, as vell
  6. as he) rorhe L4. and 15. Arricles ofthe 6 C haprer, of my B00k
  7. De CorpOre. But it is to litele purpose thac he requires in a
  8. definicion, so exactly the Cenus audthe Difference, se ine he does
  9. not bnom chem vben ther arethere. For in this my definition of
  10. Liberer the Genus is absence of impediments eo action: and the
  11. difference or Restricti nis, that they be noc concaned in chena-
  12. ture oFche ASCNE. Zhe B, BoD therefore though he talle of Ccens
  13. and Difference anderstands not mhat theyare, but requires the
  14. matter and Form, of the thine inthe D. finition. Matuer is body.
  15. that is to say corporeal substance, and subje et ro dimension, such as
  16. are the Etements, and the thines componnded of ehe F. lements. But
  17. il is impossible that Matter Bould be part ot a Definirion, Wohose
  18. parts are onelr mords, or to pur the name of Matrer, into the Defi-
  19. nition of Liberry, Which is immaterial. Flow a reall Faculey can
  20. be detined, by an absence, is (saith he) past my understandins.
  21. Ontesse be mean by reall. Faculey, a very Faculey, Pbnom not hon
  22. a Faculry is reall. Is he meanso, then a veru absence, is as reall,
  23. as a very Faculty. And if the Word defined sienifre an ab ence, or
  24. Lecation, Lbope he mould not have me define it, by a presence, or
  25. affirmation. Such a mordis Liberer, for it sienifieth Freedome
  26. from impediments, which is all one mich the absence of impediments
  27. as Thave defined it. And is this be contrary to all the rules of richt
  28. reason, (that isto say of Logict) chat hehath learned, Lsould
  29. advise him to read some othen Logick, then he bath ret read, or con-
  30. sider better those he did read, when hemas a yonne man, and conla
  31. lesse understand them. F. adds thar by chis Definicion, a stone
  32. hach Liberer eo ascend inco cheaire, because chere is nO OuE
  33. ard impediment eo hinder ic. Hlon hnolv he, nhether thene
  34. be impediments to hinden it or not? Gerrainly if a stone mere
  35. thronn upmards, it vould either eo upmards eternally, or il must
  36. be stopped by some ommurd impediment. or it must stop it self. Ie
  37. hath conse sed rhat norhins ean moove it self. L d. ube not therefore
  38. huc he will confesse also rhat it cannot stop it self. But A.pped ve
  39. sec it is; it is therefore stoppedbys impediments external. Fle hat

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 288. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0288?run=74