A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 260
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The machine reads it as
- A Vindication of
- one anocter: S0 that Peter and Zames,
- and John are aII oF the lame Kind; Vet
- Peter 15 nOr Fames, and Fames IS nOE
- Fohn. Buc Whacisthis Distinction Found
- ed upon: They may be diltinguistred
- trom cach ocher by our Senses, a5 todif-
- Terence of Features, distance of Place, (9C.
- buc char is noc all; for suppolins chere
- evere no Tuch external difference; vec
- there is a ditterence betreen them, asle-
- veral Individuals in the Came common
- Nature. And here lies the true Idea ot a
- Person, Which arises trom thac manner of
- Subsistence Wrhrich is in one Individual, and
- is not Communicable to another. AN In
- dividual, intelligent Substance, israther sup.
- Poled eo che maltins of a Person, than the
- proper Desinition ol it; For a Person re-
- lates ro lomethine erhrich doch diltinguimtr
- it trom another Intelligent Substance in
- che same Nature; and cheretore theFoun-
- dation ol ic lies in the peculiar manner
- oF Sublistence, Wrhich aorees toonc, and
- tonone elle oE theRind; and this is iE
- erhrich is called Personalitr.
- Buc hour do our simple Ideas help us
- out in thisMaster: Can ve learn trom
- ehiem, the difterence of Nature and l’erson?
- Wo may understand the disterence De-
- teen abstracted Ideus, and particular BC-
- 55
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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 260. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/727097563:0332?run=74