The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 316
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- doube ie mishe have Been) many natural events had been
- Ochermise chanchey are. And cheretore he mishehare spared
- tusinstances of castins Ambs. ace ond rainins eO morroW. And
- FirsFor his castins Ambs. acc. TF ic be chroun by a fair Game-
- Aer wich indisferent Dice, ic is a mixe action, ehe castins oF
- cheDiceistree, buc the castins oF Ambs. aceis contingent. a
- man may deliberare Whecher he will cast the Dice, Or nOL, buE
- ic ere Folly co deliberare whecher he Will cast Ambs ace, Or
- noc, because ic isnor in his porver, untess he be a cheater rhae
- cancoesetheDice, or theDice be false Dice, and chenthe
- continseney, Or che degree ot continseney cealecti, accordins.
- Iy as the Caster hach more, or lels cunnins, or as the Rpure ox
- matins ot ehe Dice doch incline them to Ambs acemore than
- eo anocher cast, or necessicare chem co chis cast and no ortier.
- Honsoerer CoFarasthe castistree, or contingent, (o Far ic is
- notnecessarr. Ard where necestier begins chere libercy and
- continsency do cease to be: Pihemise his ocher instance ot
- rainins, or noc rainins eomorrom, is nocofa tree electire act,
- nor alivares ota concingene aet. In Come Couneries asther
- trave cheir stari venri cheir cerrain winds ac sec scasons, (0 chey
- have cheir cerrain and sec rains. ThC SEthiopian rainS are
- supposed co be the cause ofthe certain inundation oF X ilus.
- In Pome castern Couneries chey hare rain onely evice a vear
- and chose constane, which che Scripeures caII the former and the
- later rain. In such places noc. nely che causes do act deter-
- minately and necellarilo, buc also che decermination, or necesti-
- ey oF cheerentis Fore. Rnomnto ehic intrabicanes. In our Cli-
- mate the natural causes caelestial and sublunary do not produce
- rain so necellarily ae sec rimes, neither can we lay so certaintu
- and intalliblr, ic will rain eomorrow, or ic will noc rainto
- morrow. Neverchelesse, it may so happen chac che caules are
- 0 dispoled and decermined, even in oux elimare, chacctis pro-
- Dolicion, ic will rain eo morron, or ic will nOE rain EOMOErOW,
- may benecessari in ic self, and elic Prognolticks Or tokensmay
- De tuch in chesky, in our omn bodies in che crearures, animace
- ard inanimate, a5 Weacher: SlasES, 50. Thac it may become
- Probabis erue cous thacic nils raintomorro, or ic will Hoe
- raIn EO MOrrON. Buc ordinarils iE is a COLLnSenE proPOLITiON
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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 316. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0316?run=74