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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 304

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  1. (304)
  2. rare action is noc sponraneons. The sire considers noc Wwhethet
  3. ic Phould burn. vet ehe Burnins oFit is nOc sponraneons. Neictrer
  4. is erery spontaneons action indeliberate, a man may deliberare
  5. wrtrac he vilt eac, and sec eac ic sontanconsty. (4) Ncicher
  6. doch deliberation properiy Fgnitie che considerins of the eood
  7. and evis sequels of an action to come. But che considerins Whe.
  8. cher ehis De a 500d and sic means, or the best, and Atces means
  9. For obrainins such an end. The Phylcian doch noc deliberate
  10. Whecher he Mould cure bis Pariene, Duc by nhac meanstre
  11. Tovid curehim. Deliberation is ot elie means noc ofche end.
  12. (C) Much less dochany man conceire with T. FI. chac delibe.
  13. racion is an imaeination, or an aet of Fancy noc oFreason, coni-
  14. non eomen ot discrecion mich madmen, and nacural foolsand
  15. children, and bruic beasts. (F) Thiraly, neirter doch anv
  16. onderstandins man conceire, or can conceire, chiac che
  17. ill is an act of our deliberation. The underscandino and the will
  18. are ero distinct faculties, or chaconely the last apperi eis robe
  19. called our will. Sonoman ould Beable ro Cay chisis my will,
  20. Decause he knons noc Whecher he Mail perterere in ic Or nOt.
  21. 5) Concernins che Foureh poine ve agree rhac heis a frec
  22. Ncent that can do, is he wmill, and forbear is he will. Bucl won-
  23. der hon chis dropped trom his pen, vhacis non become ofhis
  24. absolure necessier of ali chinss, if a man be frec eo do and eo
  25. Forbear any chins: Will he makie himself suiles ofthe non sense
  26. oFthe School men; and run wirh ehem inco concradictions for
  27. company? IEmay be hre will Fay he can do it he will, and For-
  28. bear if hie Will, buc he cannor willif he will. This will noc serve
  29. his turn, For it ehre cause ofa trec action, charis, the willeo De
  30. decermined, chenthe effect, or the action ic selF is likewise de-
  31. cermined, a decermined cause cannoc prodnce an underermined
  32. effect, cither che Agenc can will, and Forbear to will, or else he
  33. cannoc do, and Forbear to d0. (h) Buc we disser wholy about
  34. the sfch poine. Ile who conceires liberry arixte, conceires
  35. Boch a liberry in the subject eowill, or noc eo will, and a liberry
  36. 2o ihe objeet eo iil ehis, or chac, and a liberry from impediments.
  37. P. H. By a new may ofhis oon curs offche libery of the subjeet.
  38. as if astone was Frec co ascend, or descend, because ir hath no
  39. Oueard impediment. And cheliberry romards the objeet, asit
  40. Ehe

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 304. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0304?run=74