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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 359

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  1. Chap. ZIZ.
  2. Wrons Assent or Lrror.
  3. Summ on both sides, may in most Cases corie to achrom ledse, upon th
  4. irtole Matter, on which side the Probabilier rests: Wrhierein sormc
  5. Prooss in Matters of Reason, trich are suxpositious uxon univertal Expe-
  6. rience, arc so cogent and elear; and some Festimonies in Macters oP Fact
  7. (0 universal, That he cannor retuse his A(eHE. So ChaL, L FhinHE, We may
  8. conclude, that in Propolitions, Wrhere thouoh che Proots in view are ot
  9. MOSZNIOIenE, ret there are suHcierit grounds, to suspest thai there is
  10. cithier Fallaer in WVores, or certain Proots, es considerable, eo be produ-
  11. ced on the contrary side, chere Allent, Suspense, or Dilsent, are oHten
  12. voluncary Actions: But mhere the Prooss are, sucl, as matce it tiotly
  13. probable, and there is not sufficient ground to suspect, char chere is cither
  14. Fallacr oF Words, (rhich Lober and lerious Consideration may discover,
  15. nor equall validProols vet undiscovered latent on the acter side, (Whieli
  16. also the Nature oF the thins, may, in lome Cases, makee plain to 2 Con(i-
  17. derate NIan,) there, PthinkE, a Man, Who has eishedthem, can scarce
  18. refuse his sssent cothe side, on hich the greater Probabiliti appearo.
  19. Whecher it De probable, that a proiniseuous jumble of printine LecterS
  20. Thouldolten fall into a Method and Order, irhich Mould Aamp in Paper
  21. a CoherenE Discourse; or that a blind Fortuirous concourse ot AFOmS, nOL
  22. suided by an understandins Asent, Mould Frequeney constiture the B0.
  23. dies oF anv Species oF Animals; in these and che litre Cases, Tthin, n0
  24. Body that considers them, can be one jor at a Ctand wtich side to take,
  25. nOx at all aver in his ANent. LastIY, Wrhen there can be no Supposition,
  26. (the thing in is omn Nacure indisterent, and Wholly dependins upon che
  27. Testimour ot Witnesses,) chat chere is astair Testimony against; a5 FOK
  28. the Mateer ot Fact attelted; Which by Enguier, is to be learned, v. c. rvhe-
  29. Cher Fhere WaS F700 vears acone Tuch a Man at Rome 25 Fulius Caesar: TN
  30. aII such Cases, I CaY, I think ie is noc in any rational Nans Pover toretuse
  31. his ANenE; but chat it necessarils follows, and closes rich fuch Probabili-
  32. ties. In Ocher lesselear Cases, Ithink, it is in a Nan S Porver to suspend
  33. his ARenE; and, perhaps, content nimselF WitH the PrOOSS He haS, is thev
  34. farour the Opinion that suirs ith his Inclination, or Interest, and (0 Rop
  35. From tarther scarch. But that aMan Mould aftord his ANent 10 that side
  36. on rhich the less Probabilier appears to him, scems to me utterly impra:
  37. Eticable, and as impossible, as it is to believe the Carrie chins probable
  38. and improbable at the same tie.
  39. 6. 26. AS Tnowledoe, is no more arbitrary than Perception; (0,
  40. thinte, Assent is no more in our, Power than Rnomledso. WVhen thC AOrCC.
  41. ment oF any erro Ideas appear eo our Minds, Whether immediately, or
  42. by the Aistence of Reason, Pean no more retuleto perceire, no more
  43. avoid knowine it, than P ean avoid secing those Objects, Whieh I Curr
  44. MY Fyes to, and look on in dar-light: And Whar uxon suIl Examina-
  45. tion Pfind themost probable, Pcannor deny my ASenE tO. BuE chousII
  46. We cannor hinder oux RnoW ledee, Where the Agreement is once percci-
  47. vedby ourMinds; nor our Altent, where the Probabiliey manitestlr ape
  48. pears upon due Consideration oF alI ihe Mcasures oFit: Z et ve can hin-
  49. der both Rnooledee and Assent, Bystopping our Finguiry, and noc imploy.
  50. ins our Faculties in the carch OF any Pruth: iF iF WerO nOL (O, TZNOTANCO,
  51. Frror, Or Inficlelity conld not in any Case be a Fault. Thus in lome Cales;
  52. IVE CAN DTCVCNE Or uspend our ARenE: But ean a Pan, versed in modern
  53. Or ancient FTistory, doube Whether there beluch a Place as Rome, or Whe-
  54. ther eliere ras luch a Ptan a5 Fulius Caesar: Indeed there are millions ot
  55. TrVEHS, EHAEa BSan is HOC, Ox may not thinte himselE concerned to KnoW;
  56. as Wrhecher Richard ehe Third ras erook. bacld, or ro; or Whether Roger
  57. Bacon

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 359. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0375?run=74