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For, Above All, I Hold A Notion Of Possibility And Necessity According To Which There Are Some Things That Are Possible, But Yet Not Necessary, And Which Do Not Really Exist. From This It Follows That A Reason That Always Forces A Free Mind To Choose One Thing Over Another (whether That Reason Derives From The Perfection Of A Thing, As It Does In God, Or From Our Imperfection) Does Not Eliminate Our Freedom.

Although The Whole Of This Life Were Said To Be Nothing But A Dream And The Physical World Nothing But A Phantasm, I Should Call This Dream Or Phantasm Real Enough, If, Using Reason Well, We Were Never Deceived By It.

...a Distinction Must Be Made Between True And False Ideas, And That Too Much Rein Must Not Be Given To A Man's Imagination Under Pretext Of Its Being A Clear And Distinct Intellection.

When A Truth Is Necessary, The Reason For It Can Be Found By Analysis, That Is, By Resolving It Into Simpler Ideas And Truths Until The Primary Ones Are Reached. It Is This Way That In Mathematics Speculative Theorems And Practical Canons Are Reduced By Analysis To Definitions, Axioms And Postulates.

I Am So In Favor Of The Actual Infinite That Instead Of Admitting That Nature Abhors It, As Is Commonly Said, I Hold That Nature Makes Frequent Use Of It Everywhere, In Order To Show More Effectively The Perfections Of Its Author.