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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 721

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  1. 18
  2. H A P. IV.
  3. ACereainty of Somethine
  4. Mind, ould De able to knom Certainly; chac Two and Two malee
  5. Four; that P. qualS added eo E quaIs will make R. qualS; Chat a WVHOIO
  6. Is greater chan the ParE; and ehe Caule beforeche P Hect; and chac
  7. nochins can be Made without a Cause; and such like ocher
  8. Common Notions, Wtrich are ehe Principles trom Whence all their
  9. Hnomledge is derived. And indeed vere Rational Creatures, never
  10. able cobe certain oF anx such chins as this ac all; Wrhac mould cheit
  11. Lise bebuFa meer Dream ox Shaddome and chemselves but a Ridien-
  12. tous and Pompous Piece OF Phancaltick Vanity EBesdes it isno may
  13. Congruous cochink, chat Cod Almistuey Mould make Rational Crea-
  14. tures (oa5 to be in an veter impossibility, oE ever accainine to any cer
  15. tainty oF his omn Existence; Or oF havins more chan an Hypothetical
  16. Assurance thereOF, Is our Faculties be True Certrich portibly may be o
  17. chermise,) then isthere a Ood. Wesall conclude chis Discourse a-
  18. Samlethe Cartestan Scepticism, wichthat oF Orisens, movor S dvrcor
  19. Bebaor 6s, Knomledee is the onty thins in the Worid, which crea-
  20. tures bave, that is in ils oun Nature firm; chey havins here Comechine
  21. OE Cerrainty, but no Where cIPe.
  22. Wheretore mehavins nou, chat which archimedes required, Some
  23. um Oround and Footins coltand uxon, such a certainty of Truth in
  24. Our Common Norions, as Fhat they connot. Possibly be Fal(e; wichout
  25. ohiieh nochins at all could beproved by Reason; we Thall in thenexe
  26. Place endearour, noc tosalce or dissecele aur chins chereby; (irticte
  27. as ihe Cndertakins OF chat Oeometrician) buc eo Contirm and
  28. llablim che Truth ot OodS Existence, and that trom the very Idea ot
  29. um; tiicherto madc good and desended, againt all chC ANaULES OF
  30. Acheists.
  31. UE is well Hnonn, chat Cartessus hath lately made a Pretence to do
  32. lis, wirh Mathematical Fvidence and Certainty, and he dispatehes
  33. he butiness bricAy ascer chis ManVET; God Or à Perfect Beine, includ
  34. n Necessarus Existence in his very idea; and theretore he lS. BUE
  35. Chouxh he inventor oF chis ArpumenE, or rather the Reviver OF thac
  36. itiich hadt been betore uled by some Scholastickes, astirmeth it to be
  37. Cood a Demonstration, For the Existence OF a Cod, trom Eis Idea, 25
  38. chac in Geometry, For a Friansles havins Threc Aneles equal to Two
  39. Cixhris trom che Idea ofa Trianele; vet reverchelels ic is certain, tHac
  40. Yonemeans or ocher, this Argument hach nor hitherto proved (0
  41. ortunate and Successtul, chere beins many who cannot be made
  42. calible oE any Eficacy chercin, and noc a tem who C ondemn it
  43. Cor ameer sophism. As For our selves, re neirher have ans mind, 10
  44. UaErEL WITh OTHETMENS ATGUMENES Pro DeO, nOT vet vould we be
  45. houxhe, eo lay Aress in chis Cause, uxon any chins erhich is not every
  46. vay Solid and Substancial. Wheretore e Mallhere endeavour, to
  47. et donn the ClEmoCE chat Postibly vo can, boch Against chis ArgU-
  48. mene, and For it, Impartially and Candidly; and chen when ve have
  49. lone, leave che incellixent Readers, eo make their omn Judxemene
  50. concernins cheSame.
  51. Ascinst it Cuo alite Pu: Beeguse we can Frame an idea

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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 721. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0741?run=74