An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 334

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3. elle; an, that is, the nion os others; choush chere cannot be a more
4. dargerous chins to rels , nor more litiely to missead onc; lince there
5. is much more Falstood alte frrour amonost Men, than Fruch and Hnow-
6. ledoc. And it che Opintens and Persualions ot others, utiom ire snov
7. arid chirte well ot, De alound ot assent, p en have Reason 10 be Hca
8. thens in Fapan, Marcumcldus in Turker. Papilts in spain, Procestants in
9. Fncland, ada Luelalis omuen. But ot chis urons sround ot, AI.
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12. EH A P. XV
13. Os che Deorees of Assent.
14. In Boulus s Probabilits, We have laid donn in chie lore-
15. Soins Chapter, a5 they are the foundations on which our
16. Assent is buile; (0 are they allo the mealure Wherebr its several degrees
17. are, or oushe to be regulated: culy we aretotalie notice, that Wvhatever
18. frounds of Probabilies chere may be, ther set operato no Parther on ihC
19. Mind, which scarches aster Pruth, and endleavours to iudse righe, than they
20. appear; at lcast in the tirst fucsment or Scarch that the Mindmaties.
21. consels, in the Opinions Den have, and firmly stick to, in the Worid,
22. their alsent is not alivays trom an actualviem oE the Reasons thar at tirst
23. prevailed wich them: It beins in mans cases almost impossible, and in
24. most very hard, even for thole irhia have very admirable Memories, t0
25. retain all the Prooss, irhich, upon a due examinarion, made them em
26. brace that side ofthe Duection. It sustices, that cher have once riih
27. care and fairness, examined the matter a5 lar as they could; and that
28. thes have scarched into all the Particulars, that they could imagine to
29. sire ans liglu tothe Ouection; and with the best ol cheir Shill, cast ux
30. elie accoune uxon the rhole Fvidence: and thus havins once tound on
31. Wrhrich lide the Probabilies appenred torhem, alter astull and exaet an en-
32. guirs as thes can malie, chey lay up the conclusion in cheir Nemories, 25
33. a Fruthther have discovered; and for the luture, they remain Paristied
34. rich the Testimony oF cheir Memories, that chis is the Opinion, that by
35. che eroossthex have once secn ot ic, delerves luc a desree ot rleir ACenE
36. a5 chez attord it.
37. 5. L. LI Is aHt Etac IBC SreatelL pArE OF Men are capable oF doins, in
38. resulatins their Opinions and sudements; unlels a Man Will exaet ot
39. them, citherto retain distinaly in cheir Memories all the Prools concer-
40. nins any probable Truth, and that 100 in the same order, and regular
41. deduction oE Consequences, in Which ther have formerly placed or scen
42. them; Wrhich Cometimes is enous hi to fill à larse Volume uxon one linele
43. Ouection: Or else ther mult require a Mtan, tor every Opinion that le
44. emibraces, every day to cxamine che Proots: boch which, areimportible.
45. Je is unaroictable theretore, that. rhe Memory be relied on in thecase, and
46. thac Men De persuaded of severat Opinions, Whereof the Proofs are not
47. actually in their Thourhes; nas, wrhieh verhapsther are not able actualr
48. to re calI. Without this, the grearest parr ot Men must be cither very
49. Secpcictio, er chanec everus momen, and, victe chemselseo ux 10 1yeo
50. everu
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 334. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0350?run=74