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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 336

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  1. Derrees of assent.
  2. be imprections he has received trom GOD FimselF, Or TrOM Nen senE
  3. by Flim: FTon ean We expect, T Par, thac Opinions chus setled, Mould
  4. be given up to the Arguments or Authority oE a Stranser, or Adversary:
  5. speciallr it there be any suspicion of Interest, or Delign, as there never
  6. fails to be, Wtere Men find chemselres ill treatel: We Mould do Wwell 10
  7. commiserate our mutual Tgnorance, and endearour to remove it in aII
  8. the sentle and fair wars ot Intormation; and not instantly treat orhers ill,
  9. ad obstinate and perverse, because thes ill not renounce their omn, and
  10. receire our Opinions, Or at lealt thole ne rould force uxon them, When
  11. eis more than probable thar te are ro less obstinate in not embracire
  12. CHICIrS. For Where is the Man ehiat has uncontestible Lvidence oF cte
  13. Fruth oF all chiat he holds, or ot the Falsood oF aII he condetms; Or can
  14. (aY, that he has examined, to the borrom, all his onn or other Mens
  15. Opinions: The necestitr of velierins, ichour Knomledsc, nar, otren
  16. uxon verr Piohe erounds, in ehis Acctios sate of Action and Blindness
  17. e arein, ould matre us more busie and caretul to insorm our selves
  18. chan constrain others. At least, those irho have nor chroughir examined
  19. tothe Bottom all cheir omn Tenets, must consels ther are unHt t0 pre-
  20. seribe to others; and are unreasonable in imposins THat as a Trutti on
  21. ottier MIenS BelieF, Which ther chemselres hare noc searched into, nOr
  22. weighed the Arsumenis oF Probabilier, on Wrhichches Mould receire or
  23. rejeet it. Thole wrho have tairts and truly examined, and are therebs
  24. sot past doube in all the Doctrines ther protels, and sovern chemselves
  25. by, ould have a juster pretence eo require others ro follo them: BuF
  26. thele are (0 ferr in number, and find (0 lirrle realon to be maxisterial in
  27. their Opinions, that nochins insolent and imperious is to be expected
  28. fromthem: Andthere is realon to thint, that it Men ivere berter in-
  29. Structed themselres, ther ould be lels imposine on OtHers.
  30. S. G. BuF tOrCTuE t0 thC GroundS OF ABenL, and the several deprees
  31. OFit. We are to rake notice, that the Propositions We receive upon In-
  32. ducements of Probabilitr, are of tvo sorts; cither concernin fome par-
  33. ticular Existence, Or, a5 it is ulualIY termed, matter ot sact, wtich Fal-
  34. ling under our Observation, is capable ot humane Teltimonr; or ette
  35. Concernins Fhinos, which beins berond the dilcorery of our senles, are
  36. not capable oP any such Testimonz.
  37. 6. 6. Concernins the first OEthele, viz. particular malter of fact,
  38. First. Nhere ary parricular chirs consonane to the constant Obler-
  39. vation oF our selres and otbers, in the lite case, comes atrested with the
  40. concurrent ReportS o aIl thatmention it, we receire it as calilr, and
  41. build as firmly upon ic, as is it vere cerrain lnoledee; and We reason
  42. and act thereuxon With as litele doubr, as il ic iere perfect demonstra-
  43. tion. Thus it aII Fnelist. men, Wrho hare occation to mention it, Mould
  44. afFIrmI, chat iE FrozC in Fineland the last Winter, Or thac there eere Siral-
  45. lous seen there inthe Summer, P chinke a Man could almost as litele doube
  46. OFit, as that Seven and Four are Fleven. Thetirst theretore, and highest
  47. decree of Probabilir, is, When the general consent oF aIl Men, in aII
  48. AGCS, 25 tar a5 it can be KnoWn, concurrs wich a ManS constant and
  49. never. failine fixperience in like cales, ro contirm the Truth ol any par-
  50. ricular matter of fact attested by fair Wirnesses: Such are aIl the Carcd
  51. Constiturions and Properries of Bodies, and the regular proceedinrs ot
  52. Causes and Ffects in the ordinary course oF Nature. This wre call an
  53. Aroument trem the nature ot Thinos themselres. For What our ornond
  54. Octier Meris conslant Observation, nas sound alrays co he alter chesame
  55. MRANEE
  56. D

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 336. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0352?run=74