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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 258

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The machine reads it as

  1. A Pindication of
  2. Reat Fsence, and noc a meer Nominal Or
  3. abstracted Pssence: Dur suppole there ivere
  4. more Suns; would nor cach ot them have
  5. the Reat PPence oF the Sun: For what is
  6. it maties the second sun to bc a true
  7. Sun, but having the lame Real Fssence
  8. rich the tirst: IF it evere bue a Nominat
  9. Fssence, then the second rould Lave no-
  10. chins but che Name.
  11. Therctore there must De a Real P Sence
  12. ir. every indiridual oF the lame lind;
  13. For that alone is it, wrhich makes it to bc
  14. What it 15. Peter, and fames, and Fohm,
  15. are ail erue and real Men; buc What is
  16. ic Which malies them (0: IS it the ateri
  17. butins a generat Name tothem: No cer-
  18. cainly, buc chatthetrue and Reat F sence Ot
  19. aMan is in every onc ot chiem. And we
  20. must be as certain ot this, a5 we are chat
  21. ches are Men; they ralce cheir Denomi-
  22. nation of beins Men trom chat commen
  23. Nature, Or Fsence irhich is in them.
  24. 4. That the generat Idea is not made
  25. Trom che simple Ideas by the meer Aet ot
  26. the Mind abstractins trom Circumstan-
  27. ces, bur trom Reason and Conlideration
  28. ot chetrue Nature oF Things. For, When
  29. Wve sce (omanr Individuals, chat havethe
  30. Tame Povers and Properties, we thence
  31. inter, char ehere must be somethins com-
  32. mOn

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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 258. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/727097563:0330?run=74