The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 297

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2. rorhem. Ile cails it a sufficient carsse of draviis, that ther be
3. Coachhorses, thouch ehey be lame, on miil not dra. But Ysay they
4. are not sufficient absolurely; but consitionally, if ther bonot lame
5. nor resty. Let the read.r iudee, Whether my suficient cause or
6. his may properly be callod cause enoiteh.
7. (B, TSecondly, a cause may be said co be susticient, cicter
8. Decause ic produceth chac etfect whichis incended, as in che
9. Generation ot amon, or else, because ic is sufficient co produce
10. thac Which is produced, a5 in ehe generation ot a Mtonster: EhC
11. Former is properly called a sufficient cause, che laccer a weskand
12. insuiciene cause.) In these fer lines hehath sard the canse of the
13. generation of a Monster is sufficien toproduce a Monster, and
14. thac it is in sufficient to produce a Monst. r. Fiom soon may a man
15. forget his mords that doth n. F understand them. Fhistorm of in
16. Susticiene canse, which also the School casDefieient that chey
17. may rime to efficient, is not intelieible, but a mord devised lihe
18. Fioeus Pocus. 10 jucele a difficuley ont of (. ehr. Thar rbich is
19. sufficient 1o produce a MConster, is not therefore ro be called an in-
20. sufficient canse ro produce a man, no more then that mhichis suffi-
21. eient to produce aman, is to be calle d an insufficient cause to pro-
22. ducea Monster.
23. (C) TThirdly, a cause is said eo be surticiene in respect ofche
24. abilier otic eo act, noc in respect ofies will eo act, _c. A560d
25. is sufficiene co produce a ehiousand WV orids. He undersiands
26. dittle, Whenm en say, Godis sufficient eo produce many morids, is
27. be nierstand not the meanine tobe, that he is sufficient to produce
28. them is herit. Wit our this supposirion, TEhe will, a man is not
29. Sufficient to produce any voluntarr action, noc so much as rovalte,
30. Hbonch he be inhealch, and at Liberty. The vill is as much a
31. sufficient cause rithont the streneth to de, as the strene th mithout
32. ihe Wil. 20rhat mhich he adds- that my Definition is a meer eri-
33. ins bereen a sufficiener in a dirided sense, and a sufficiency
34. in a compounded sense, Jcan mate nansmer, becanse Tunder-
35. stand no more, mhat hemeans by sufficieney in a divided sense,
36. and susticiener in a compounded senle, then if he had said (ufi-
37. cienes in a dirided non sense, and lusticiency in a compounded
38. sOn- WLHLC.

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 297. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0297?run=74