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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 293

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  1. (203)
  2. duce necellarr effects; buc ehe Wil is a necestarr caule oF von
  3. luncary Actions. P mishe deny his Major; necestary causes
  4. do noc alvares produce necelsary eRects, excepe ches bealso
  5. necessarily produced.) Ile has reduced the Arcument to non-
  6. sense, by sayine nece’ary causes produce nnt necessary effects. For
  7. necessary effeds, uniesse he mean such effects as saltneec Parily be
  8. produccd, is instenificant. L et him consider theresore mith what
  9. srace he can say, necessary causes don t almares produce their
  10. effects, except those effects be also necessarily produced. But his an-
  11. siver is chiesly to ihe Minor. and denies ebat the Wil is not a ne-
  12. cessary cause of rbat it mills in partienlar Actions. Zbat it
  13. Wills, when it wills (saithhe) is necessary, but that ic wills this or
  14. that, is frec. Is it possible for any man to conceive that he that
  15. nilleth ean vill any L’ ins but this or thar parricular thins. is
  16. therefore manisest et at either the nr il is a necessary cause of this
  17. or that or any other particular section, or vot the necessary canse
  18. os any voluntary Action ac all. For universal Actions chere be
  19. none. Inthat Which folleveth, he mndertak eth eo male bis doctrine
  20. more expressly understood by considerine the Act of the mill three
  21. mays. In respect oties nacure, in respect ofies Fxercile; and in
  22. respect oE ies object. For the nature ofthe AEt (he sait h) that
  23. Thac which che will wilssis necessarils volunrary, and ehat in
  24. this sense, he grancsic is out of controvers, chac che willis a
  25. necessary cause oF voluncary actions. Instead of chacwhict
  26. the Will Wills; ro mate ir sense, read ehat which the man wills, and
  27. then if therrans mill be as he confesseth a necessary cause of volun-
  28. tary Actions; it is no lesse a necessary cause thattheyare ACti-
  29. ons, ih.n that they are voluncarr. For the Lxercise of ihe Act
  30. he saithebat the will mar cither will, or suspend ies ACt. This
  31. is the old cantins nhicb hach atready been sufficiently derectedi
  32. But 1o make il somevohat let us reade it thus, the man that milleth.
  33. may either nil or su: p. na tis mill, and ehus it is incellisible bue
  34. false; for hon ean hethat willth at the s. me rime suspend bis
  35. rill? And Por the oljeet he says, that ic IS nDC nece NarY BUE
  36. Frec, . L’is reasonis because he lars it mas not necessary (fort
  37. example) in choosins a Po, e, to cheose him etis or that day, or 10
  38. chase this or thatman. nonla be elad eo tenom by What Aretia
  39. ment he can prove the L loction nos tatave been necessintid; For

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 293. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0293?run=74