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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 360

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  1. Nrone Assent or rri
  2. Bacon Was a Machematician, or a Magician: In these and suctr like Cases.
  3. erhere the Assent one ay or other, is ot no Importance to the Interest
  4. ot any onc, no Action, no Concernment ot his follomins, or dependirie
  5. thereon, there tis not sranse, that the Mind Mould sive it selt up eo tho
  6. common Opinion, or render it selF t0 the Arst Comer. These and the
  7. like Opinions, are of so little eighe and momene, that like Mores in the
  8. Sun, their Pendencies are very rarely talien notice ot. They are there,
  9. 25 it vere, by Chance, and the Mind lers them Aoat at liberer. But where
  10. theMind judges, thePropoltion has Concernment in it, where ihe AP
  11. sent, or not Assentins, is thoustu ro drar Consequences alter it oF ino
  12. ment, and ciodd or Fvil to devend on chutine, or retulins the righe
  13. Side, and the Mind sets it self scrioussy to enquire, and examine the Pro-
  14. babilit; there, I thint, it is not in our Choice, to tatte which side ve
  15. Please, it manisest oddsappears on cither: The greater Probabilitr, l chirk.
  16. inthac Casc, Will determine the ACenE; and a Man can no more avoid a(-
  17. lentins, or talins itto De true, irhere he perceires the greater Probabilis
  18. cy, chan hecan aroid hnorins ic eo be crue, irhiere le perccires the A:
  19. Greement or Dilasreement ot any trro Ideas.
  20. IE ehis be fo, the Foundation of Frrour will lic in rrons Mcalures ot
  21. Probabilitr; as the Foundation of Vice, in irone Mcasures oF Gro0d.
  22. 5. X7. Fourthly TheFourth and last vrone Measure of Probability
  23. Pall take notice ot, and which keeps in IBnOranc. C, Or Frror, more Peo-
  24. ple than all the other rogether, is chat which Ihave mentioned in the
  25. fore soing Chapter, Imean, the sivine up our Assent to the common recei-
  26. red Opinions, cither of our Friends, or Party; Neichbourtiood, or
  27. Counerr. Iion mans Men have no other cround for their Tenets, than
  28. ehe suppoled IIonesr, or Learming, or Number ol thole ot the lame Pro-
  29. Fession: ASif honest, or boolis Nlen couldnot err, or Pruth vere tobe
  30. Cltablied by the Vote of the Multitude; vet chis rith molt nen serves
  31. the Turn. The Tenet has had the acrestation ol reverend Antiquity; it
  32. comes to me Withithe Pals port ol former Ages, andcheretore lam lecure in
  33. the Reception Psire it: OthierMen have been, andare of the same Opinion,
  34. (For thar is alt is laid,) and therefore it is realonable forme to embrace it. A
  35. Man mas more justitiabls chrou up Crols and Dile for his Opinions, than
  36. tatie them up by such Meatures. AIIMen are liable to Firror, and most Men
  37. are in mans Points, by Pastion or Interest, under Temptation to it. IF Wve
  38. could bur sec the secret motires, thac indluenced the Men oF Name and
  39. Learnins in che Worid, and the Lcaders ot Parties, we Mould nor alvars
  40. tind, thac it ras the embracins ol Truch tor irs omn lakre, that made
  41. ehem espouse the Doctrines, they omned and maintained. This at least is
  42. cerrain, there is not an Opinion lo absurd, wrhich a Man may not receire
  43. uxon this ground. There is no Frrorto Denamed, WtricH has noc had
  44. its Prosessors: And a Man Pall never want crooled Paths to walke in, it
  45. he thinles he is in the rishe way, Where ever he hasthe Foot. Aeps olothers
  46. Eofoltorr.
  47. 5. 28. But notrithstanding the grear Noise is made in the WVorId abOuL
  48. tirrors and Opinions, Imust doMantrind that Rietu, a5 tolar, There are
  49. not so many Men in Frrors, and urone Opinions, as is commonty supposed.
  50. Noc that I thinte ther embrace che Truth; but indced, beciule concer-
  51. nins thole Doctrines ther hecp luch a Rir about, ther have no Thoughe.
  52. no Opinionat all. For il any one Bould a licele catechile the greareapart
  53. Olche Partilans ot most ot the Sects in the Worid, he vouldnor find, con-
  54. cernins thole Mattersthey ore lo zealous for, that ther have anr Opi
  55. nions chcis omn; much lets Noula he have Rcason 10 this, ilac ce
  56. 1001

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 360. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0376?run=74