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saw. St Augustine, on the contrary, while holding it impious
to think them to be violations of Nature's
Laws, regards them apparently as occurences
that are to us what the reading of a letter by a
man might seem to a dog to be, namely, a
manifestation of some higher mastery of things
than would be compatible with his nature.

One fallacy into which the necessitarians
of class C generally fall in that they imagineing
that they can disprove that anything happens by chance
by showing that the event has a cause. Thus Boethius at
the beginning of the 5th book of his consolations, after
citing Aristotle as a necessitarian, which is enough
to take one's breath away, so monstrous is the blunder or
the impudence of it, has a little ode of twelve lines

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St Augustine, on the contrary, while holding it impious to think them to be violations of Nature's Laws, regards them apparently as occurences that ar to us what the reading of a letter by a man might seem to a dog to be, namely, a manifestation of some higher mastery of things than would be compatible with his nature.

One fallacy into which the necessitarians of class C generally fall in that they imagining that they can disprove that anything happens by chance by showing that the event has a cause.
Thus Boethuis at the beginning of the 5th book of his consolations, after citing Aristotle as a necessitarian, which is enough to take one's breath away, so monstrous is the blunder ot the imprudence of it, has a little ode of [?elot] lines