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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 317

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  2. tous, Whether ic be continzent also in ic selF, that is, whether
  3. ehe concurrence of the couses vere absolurely necessary, wtre
  4. cher ehe vapours, or matrer oFthe rain may not ver be disper.
  5. sed, or ocherwile consumed, or driven bevond our coast, is a
  6. speculation whicti no ar concerns this quettion. So we lee
  7. onc reason hiy his cro instances are altoxerher impertinene.
  8. because chey are of actions which are noc trec, nor electire, nox
  9. such a5 proceed From cheliberey oF mans will.
  10. Secondly, our dispuce is abour absoluce necessicy, his proots
  11. extend onely eo Hypothetical necestier. Our quection iss
  12. Whecher che concurrence and decermination ofche causes vere
  13. necessaro before ches did concur, or vere decermined. HC
  14. prores thacthe effect is necessary afcer ehie causes hare concur-
  15. red, and are decermined The trees actions of Giod, Or man,
  16. are necessary by such a necessiey ot supposirion, and che mok
  17. continsent evenrschac are, as Phare Mewed plainly, Numb. 3.
  18. Where his instance oF Ambs. ace is more Fullv ansvered. Sohis
  19. proot lools anocher may tromhus proponcion. Elis provo-
  20. licionis, chac the casting of AmBS. aCC mas necessary bet. re it mas
  21. throvon. Hlis prootisthac ic was neceslary wohen it Was throrons
  22. examine all his caules over and over, and ches will noc aftord
  23. him one grain of ancecedent necestiey. The Arst causeis in the
  24. Dice: True, it chey De False Dice chere may be Pomechins in
  25. ic, buc chen his continseney is destroved. IFcher besquare
  26. Dice, ther hare no more inclinarion to Ambs-ace, than EO
  27. Cinque and Qiacer, or any octier cast. His lecond cause is the
  28. posture of the parres hand: Buc wtrac necesticy waschere chac
  29. he P0. Id puc his hand into such a posture ? None ac aII. ThC
  30. third cause is the measure of the Torce ap, lied by tle caster. NoW
  31. for che credit of his cause sec hum buc name, lwill noc lay a
  32. convincins reason. nor (o muchas a probite realon, buc eren
  33. any prerence otrealon, how the Caster was necesticaced From
  34. wichour himseltro apple inst so much force, aud neicher more
  35. nor lesse. IF hecanrcr, his causeis desperare, and hemav hold
  36. tris Peace For ever. His laH car le ic tlc posture of the T able. BUC
  37. cell us in gond earnest uat recastic ehere vas whrche Calter
  38. st chrow incoctac Y. B. ~ reene itia ehie orter, or chacche
  39. Dice mulc FalI sest WOc. n il a
  40. Pable, bes rethe cast
  41. vas

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 317. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0317?run=74