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Wherein the chief Causes of Error and Difficulty in the Sciences, with the Grounds of Scepticism, Atheism, and Irreligion, are inquir'd into, fol. 68

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The machine reads it as

  1. Ofthe Principles
  2. ParEI
  3. there is no Corporcal or Material Sub.
  4. stance: IE remains cheretore that the
  5. Causeof Idcas is an Incorporcal, actire
  6. Substance Ox Spirit.
  7. 5 27. A Spirit is onc simple, Ondi-
  8. vided, actire Being, 25 It perccIres I
  9. deas, IE IS Called the Vnderstandine, and
  10. 25 It produces or ocherwile Operates a
  11. Boucthem, it is called the Will. Hlence
  12. Fhere can be no Idea Formed ot a 5qil
  13. Or Spirit: For all Idcas Wvhaterer, De-
  14. ino Passire and Tnere, vid. Sect. XXV,
  15. ther cannot reprelene unto us, by Way
  16. ot Imase or Likeness, chac ertrich ACS.
  17. A litele ACcention Will make ic plain to
  18. aur onc, thac to hare an Idca Which
  19. Mall be like thac actire Principle oFMO-
  20. tion and Chanse ot Ideas, is ablolutelr
  21. impossible. Such is the NTacure OF Spi
  22. rit or chac Which ACES, that it cannot
  23. Be OF IE TelF Perceired, buc onlr by the
  24. Efects Wrhuch it produceth. IF aur Man
  25. MaII doube ot the Truch oF What is here
  26. delivered, lec tum but reflect and cey il
  27. he can Frame che Idca ot anr POVeE OK
  28. decire Bems; and wrhecher he tras Idcas
  29. C

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Wherein the chief Causes of Error and Difficulty in the Sciences, with the Grounds of Scepticism, Atheism, and Irreligion, are inquir'd into, fol. 68. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/797331344:0080?run=74