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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 324

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  1. (324)
  2. man maytake the beishe ofthe Bisops Lozick. In our Climare
  3. the natural causes do noc produce rain (o neceslarilu ac sex
  4. times as in Pome Fastern Couneries. Theretore they do noc
  5. produce rain neceslarily in our Climate, then when chey do
  6. produce ic. And acain e cannoc lay (0 cercainty and infalli-
  7. bly, ic will rain eo morrom, or ic will noc rainto morron,
  8. cheretore it is not necessary cictier chacir Mouldrain, or chap
  9. ic Chould nOE raIn LO MOrTON; as if norhine vere necessary the
  10. necessity whereos me tenom not. Another reason hesaith; why my
  11. instances are imperrinent, is becanse chey extend onely eo an
  12. EPochetical necestier, that is, that che necessiry is n.t in the
  13. antecedent causes, and thereupon challensethme for the cre dit of
  14. mycanse, toname somo reason hon che caster vas necesItared
  15. Erom wichoue himselt eo applr just so much force tothe cast,
  16. and reicher more nor lesse; or Whac necessier chere was wty che
  17. caster must chrom into chat Pable racher then the octier, or chac
  18. che Dice must FaII just upon chac pare of. he Table betore che
  19. cast Wasthrown. Flere again from our ignorance of the particular
  20. causes that concurrins make the necessity, he inferreth that there
  21. Was no such necessit, at all; mhich indeed is thar which hath in all
  22. ehis question deceived him and all orher men, that actribute events
  23. ro forrune. But L suppose he mill not deny thar event tobe necessa-
  24. ry mhere all the causes of ibe cast, and their consurre ce. andthe
  25. cause of etat concurrence are forchnomn, and mieht betold him-
  26. thonch P cannot tell him. Secing therefore Cod foretenovs them
  27. ail, the cast mas necessary, and that from antecedent causes from
  28. eternity, rhichis ne Fyporherical necessity.
  29. And mhereas my arcument to prove, tharrainins EOmOrrON,
  30. aF iC MaII chen rain, and noc rainins co morrow it ic Mall chen
  31. nec rain, mas herefore necessary becanse octerwile chis disjun-
  32. cive propolirion, ic Mall rAIn OP NOEraIN EO MOErOW, Is noc ne-
  33. cellary, he ansmereth thac à conjunet provosition, mavhave
  34. boch pares False and vecihe proposicion becrus, as itche Sun
  35. Sine ic is daz, is a erie proposition ac midniehe. Trhathas a
  36. conjunet proposition to do mith this in question, bich is disunctives
  37. On what be ehe parrs of this proposition, iF ehe Sun chine it is day ?
  38. Et is not made oftuo propositions, as a disjunctive is; bat is one
  39. simple proposition, namely ehis the sinins ofthe Sun is day. Fither
  40. 1

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 324. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0324?run=74