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