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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 302

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  3. not marte his onn meanine by those mords. Or hom can it be prooved
  4. ehat FternItY IS NOF RUINC SCaNS; to a manthat Cayes these mords by
  5. custome, and never considers horr he can conceive the thine it self
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  12. mast thint there vas sore special cause, hy it becan thenra-
  13. ther than sooner or later, or else, that it becannever, but was
  14. Fternal.
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  18. L So considenety censured che WhOlC CUFreNE OFSChOOl
  19. men and Philosophers ofnen. sense, had need co produce Arons
  20. eridence For himselE. So he callshis reaCons, Num b. 36. demon-
  21. strative proofs. All demonstrations are cirtier From the cause Or
  22. ehe effect, noc Fom privare norions and conceptions, which we
  23. have in our minds. Thacmhich he calls a demonstrarion de
  24. Serres nor che name of an intimarion. He argues chus; That
  25. Which a man conccives inhis mind, by these mords Spontancity
  26. Deliberation, c. tharthey are. This istris propolicion which
  27. Pdenv. (a) The erue nacures oFchinss are nocto be judsed
  28. by theprivace ideas, Or conceptions of men, buc by cheir caules
  29. and formalreasons. Ask an ordinary person whac upmards lis
  30. nifies, and Whecher our Ancipodes hare cheir heads upvards
  31. Or donnvards; And he willnoc sick cocell vou, chacifhis
  32. hread be upards, cheirs must needs be donnwards. And chis
  33. is because he knows nocthe Formal reason chereot: chac the
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  36. Detore cherrue reason mas Fuliy discorered, abused more chan
  37. ordinary capacicies, as appears by cheir arsumeris oF penduli
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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 302. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0302?run=74