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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 294

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  1. (294)
  2. it is not enongh for himro say, (perecive no necessity in it; nor 1
  3. saythy mislt have chosen anocher, becarse hebnons net ubether
  4. they mi.h: Or not; nor to say if he had not been freciy clected, ibe
  5. Election had been void or nive. For t ouchthat be true, it does
  6. not follon tar ehe Llection mas not necessari; for th re is no re-
  7. puenance, tonecessiei cither in Flection, or in Frcedome. And
  8. whereas he concludeth, Pheretore voluncare Acts in particular
  9. are noc necessicaced; L mould have been elad h: had set donn
  10. What v. lantaru ACts there are, noc parricular, which by his re-
  11. stricrion of volentary aers he erantsto be necessitated.
  12. T. FI.
  13. AuM. S. C Eventhly, Lhold that to be a sufficient cause ro mhich nochine
  14. is mancine that is nee dsul rothe producire ofthe effcet. The
  15. same is also a necessary cause, for if it bepossible, that a sufficient
  16. canse sal noc brine forththe effect, thenthere manted son eetat
  17. Which mas needsul to the producine ofic, and so the cause Was not
  18. sufficient. But is it be impossible rhat a sufficient cause Boula net
  19. produce the effect, thenis a sufficient cause a necessary cause, (for
  20. that is said ro produce an effect necessarily, that cannot but prodnce
  21. it) Flence it is manifest, thac whatsoever is produced, is produced
  22. necessarily. for hat (ocver is produced hach had a sufficient canse
  23. to prodnce it, or else it had not becn. And therefore also voluntars
  24. actions are necessicated.
  25. F
  26. His section contains a chird ArSuMenE EO proOve Thar aII
  27. effects are necessary; for clearins whereofit is needrull EO
  28. consider hou a cause may be said eo be susticiene or insufficient.
  29. First, sereral causes finsly considered may Deinsufticient,
  30. ana ehie same caken conjoinely be susticiene to produce an
  31. effect. A5 (a) erso Horses joincly are sufticiene eo draw a
  32. Coach, wtrich cirher ot chem Pinasy is insufficiene ro do. Now
  33. eomoke che effect, char is the drawins of che Coach necessary.
  34. it is noc onely required, ehac chermo tTOrses DC SUFICICHEFO
  35. dra ic, bur also chat cheir conjurction be necelsary, and cheir
  36. trabieude such as chey may draw ir. IFche omner ot one ot
  37. chese. Horses will noc suster himco dram, IFche smich have
  38. Mod

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 294. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0294?run=74