The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 319
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The machine reads it as
- 31C
- iie be a rixhe disjunction, ehe Members are repusnane, Where
- ot one pare is infallibly erue, vec vary buc che proposition a
- liccle eo abace che edee or che disjunctions, and vou Mall Ande
- chac wtich Y. PT. Paich eo Beerue, thac it is pot ihe necessi, et
- ehe thine wrtrich makes che proposicion co be truc. ASFOL
- example varv ic chus: L knoW char either it will rain to morron,
- er thas is will not rain ro merroir is a crue proposition: Buc ic is
- nOE erue chac L HnoW ic will rain co morron, neicter is ic true
- chacI Know ic willnoc rain comorro: Wheretore the certain
- erueh et che propolition doch noc prore, chac cirher otehe
- Members is determinacely erue in present. Truch is a contor-
- micy oF cheunderstandins co chethins knomn, Whereot speect
- is an interprecer. IFthe understandins agrec noc wich chechine
- ic is an errour, it che mords axree noc mich che understondins it
- is a lic. NNow chechins knomnis Hnoun cither in it selF, or in
- ies CauseS. TFic De Hnown in ic leIF, as ic is, ehen WC expreNe OUE
- apprehension of it in words ofche presenccence, as ihe sunis
- risen. IF ic De knonn in ies cause, we expresse our selves in
- Words oEche Fucure cense, 25 eo morron will be an Fclipse of +he
- Moon. Buc if we neicher hnon ic in ies selF, nor in ies causes,
- ehien chere mas be a Foundacion ofcrucH, buc there is no sien
- decerminace cruth ofic, chac We can reduce IE INEO a FrUC pFODOL
- Tition, e cannoc lay it dochrain tomorrou, or ic dochnoc
- rain eomorron. Thac ere noc onely False Buc absurd, We can-
- noc poleirelv Cay ic willrain co morron, because we do noc
- know ic in ies causes, cither how chey are decermined, or chac
- chey are derermined, Wheretore the certieude and eridence of
- the disjunctire proposition is neicher Founded upon chac which
- will be actually comorrom, for ic is granced chac ve do noc
- know chac; nor vet upon che decermination ot the coules, For
- etien e ould noc lay indifferenely, cirher ic willrain, or ic will
- noc rain, bue posicirels ic willrain, or posicirely ic willnoc
- rain. But ic is prounded upon an undeniable principle, chat ot
- tuo coneradictor propositions, the one multnecellarilu be
- erue. (f) Andcheretoreco Pay, cirtrer ehis, or chac willintal
- libly be, bur ic is noc yet decermined Whecher chis, or chac MMaII
- be, isno such senCelesse asserrion ehae ic delerved a Y prprice T_
- paralice, buc an eridene eruth wrhich no man chas hack his eres
- in his head can doube ot.
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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 319. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0319?run=74