The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 309

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1. stand as he conceroos, exc. No rational man doth conceive a
2. spontancons action and an indeliberare Action eo be all one;
3. Prery indeliberare Action is nOE spontaneons, 6. NOr every
4. Spontancons Action indeliberate.) This TC et by striotme tomate
5. sense of that wbieh he strives tomate non-sense. L never thoneht
6. the mord spontaneit; P. nelist. Tet becanse hensed it, L made such
7. meanins of it as it trould bear, and said ic meane inconsiderare
8. proccedins or nochins. And for this my toomuch officionsnesse
9. Ir. ceive the remard of bcins thonghe by him noc tobe a rati nal
10. man. L knom that in the Lacir e os al Authors but Sch0ol- men.
11. Actio sponcanea scorifies that Action, hereos there is no ap
12. pa ent cause derived furtber thnfromthe AGent it sels, and is in
13. all thines that have sense, the same mith voluncary mbether deli-
14. bera ed or nor d liberated. And therefore rhere h. distinguisted it
15. from voluntary. Lthonshe he miche mean indeliberare; buc let it
16. signifre nhat it Will, provided it beincellisible, it mould make
17. acainst him.
18. (d) (Neither doch deliberation propertr signisre the consi-
19. derine of the c00d und evil sequells, of an action cocome; buE che
20. considerins whecher this be n good and sc means, or che bett,
21. and ficcest means for obeainins such an end) IFthe BI F ops
22. VorQs proceeded not fromhearins and readi e of ochers, but from
23. his omn clouches, he sonld never have reprebende d chis Definition
24. of Deliberation esrecialiy in de manner he dethit; for hesaysit
25. i ie consinerins rhether this or that be a e00d and fit means, for
26. obrainine such an end; as if considerine whectier a means be eood
27. Or not W. re net all one vich considerins whether the se que los usins
28. those means b. e00d or cvil.
29. (e) (Much lesse doch any man conceive wichZ. FI. chaC
30. deliberation is an Aet oj Fancie, NOE OFReaION, COIIONEO
31. men oidilererion wich madien, nacural F0ols, childeen, and
32. biuce Beas.) Ido indeed conceive that d liberarion is an Aet of
33. Imasination or F. neie, nay more, thac Reasoe and Underctan.
34. Ct5 also, are Acts of the Lmaginarion, that is tosay, they are
35. ImasiraEIOnS. L find it se by considerine my orr Ratiorination;
36. and he mishe find it soinhis, is he did conside: his own bonchis,
37. and nt secat as he decsby rote; by rote Cay Wohen le disputes;
38. pot by rote, hen he is abont chose trists, he calethbusinesses; then
39. rhen

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 309. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0309?run=74