The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 323
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- necestary, and errs chercinthe other may; for he sars in effect that
- many thinss are, whichare not; for is is all’one to lay they are not
- continsent, andthey are not. Ile Bould have said there be mans
- thines, the necessiey of hose contingence, We canmot or do not lenoiv.
- Ce) (Buc Whecher ehere be a necessary connection oF all na-
- cural causes From chebesinnins. (0 a5 cher nust all have con-
- curred ascher hare done, ec. Would require a tureliee eximi
- nacion, it ic vere perrinene ro chis quelcion oELibures; huc ie
- is nOr. Ic is suffcient eo my porpolero hare hewed, _c.) I)
- ehere be a necessary connection of all natural caules frons the be-
- sinnins henther. is no doube but. hat all chinos happen necesse-
- riiy. Which is thac, that Phave all chis rmhile maintained. But
- nnh ther there be or no, hesays, it requires a archer exarinatio
- Flithertotherefore he hnons not whether it be erne or o and c0. se-
- quenel, ad his arguments hirherto have bcenef no effect, nor hach
- he semed aur thine ro p: ovc (ehat he purposed) thar elective Acti-
- ons aren in cessicated And vhereas a licrle besore he says, that
- omy Argumenes, to prove that sufficient canses are necessary he
- hacti alreads ansivered, it seemeth he distrustech his odn ansver,
- and ansvers azain eo the svo instances of caltins Ambs ace, and
- rainins Or noc rainirs co morron; buc brines no other Argu-
- ment toprove the cast throvn not eo be nece sarily chrovn butthis,
- chat he does no: deliberare nhecher he Ball throm that cast or not.
- erhich Areument may perhaps prove that ebe castine of it pro-
- cecdeth noc from frec mill, buc proves noc any chine acainst the
- ancecedent necessiey of it. And 1o prove chat it is not necessary.
- that ic pould rain or notrain co morrov, aster telline us that the.
- SEchiopian rains cause the inundation of ilus; that in some
- Eastern Conniries they have rain onelr erice ayear, which the
- Scripture (he saith) callethche Former and che lacter rain. (I
- thonehe hehad knomn it by the experience of some Travellers, but
- Tsce he onely cachereth it from that Phrase in Scripture of Former
- and laccerrain.) I say afrer hehas cold us this. 1o prove that it is
- not necessury it Bonld rain or noc rain so morron, he saich that in
- sur Climate, ehe narural causes celectial and sublunory do nor
- produce rain so necelsarily ac sec times, as in che Fastern Coun-
- eries; neicher con e Pay (o cerrainly and infallibly, ic willrain
- comorron, or ic will nocrain eo morron. Bychis Argument, a
- Mat
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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 323. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0323?run=74