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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 308

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  1. (308)
  2. these mords, S0 bis propoticion is salfe.
  3. (6) FHis ralon, that matrer of fact is not ver fred by other
  4. mens Arcumenes, buc by every mans onn sense andmemory, is
  5. likewise maimed on boch sides. WVhecher we hear such words,
  6. Ornoc, is marter offact, and senle is thebroper Judse ofit;
  7. buc wrhracchese words do, or oushe eruely eo GisnEe, is nOEEO
  8. De judsed by sense, buc By reason.) A man is borne mithaca-
  9. paciry after due rime and exverience to rea on trucly; to wbich
  10. capacity of nature, if t’erebe added no Discipline at alb, Vet, as fc:Y
  11. as hereasoneth he mil reason truely, thonch by a richt Discipline.
  12. he may reason truely in more numerous and varions matt rs. But
  13. he that bath lichred on deceivins or deceiv. d masters, that teach
  14. for cruth. all that hathbeen dictated to them by th. ir omn interest.
  15. or hach beeneried up by other such reachers beforethem, have for
  16. the most part their natural reason as far as concernethibe truthof
  17. Doctrine quire defaced or very much vealened, becomine chanse-
  18. lives thronch the inchantments of mords not understood. This
  19. comethinto my mind from this fayins ofthe BistoP, that marter of
  20. fact, is not verisre d by sense and memory but by areuments. Ilom
  21. is it possible that mithout Discipline a man poula cometorhinte
  22. that the cestimony of u mitress, Which is the onely verifier of maiter
  23. offact sonld consist, not in lense andmemory, se as he may (ay
  24. hesare and remem bers che thins done, but in treumenis or S. Ie-
  25. sismes? Or hon can an unlearned man bebronche to thinte the
  26. mords he speutes, onche to signifie. (When he speates sinc rely) any
  27. thins else, bu: that whichlimself meanc by them? Or hom ean
  28. any man mithont learnine t. ketre question whectier ehe sun be
  29. no bisger chena balI, cr bisser chenche Farit, e bea qustion
  30. of fact? Lor do L cbinte chat any man is so simple as not to find
  31. thar rohe food mhich he loveth. eo0d L Cay so far forth, as it m. Keth
  32. him to loveit; or is rhere any unl arned man, so st pi d as rothinte
  33. Frerniry es this present instant Ftime standins Bill, and the same
  34. Aternit to berheveryn eet instant aster, and consequently that
  35. there beso many rernities as there can beinstants of time supoo
  36. Sed3 No, thereu Sciolastio learnins require dinsome measure
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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 308. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0308?run=74