PREFACE

PRÆFATIO.

...taught; let him, as far as we are concerned, be fully convinced in his own mind original: "suo abundet sensu." This is a common Latin idiom derived from Romans 14:5, suggesting that the author is content to let others hold their own opinions without further argument.. We shall stir up no dispute with anyone; if, however, someone wishes to pursue a dispute against us further regarding this matter, we shall offer them no reply. For many things remain to be done before the entire system of philosophy systema philosophiæ, which we outlined in the preliminary discourse A reference to Wolff's Discursus praeliminaris de philosophia in genere (1728), which laid the methodological groundwork for his entire body of work., is completed.

Once that is finished, I will respond if anything perhaps arises that seems to me worthy of some answer; or, if the matter so requires, I will set down what seems necessary in my Leisure Hours Horis subsecivis Wolff refers here to his Horae Subsecivae Marburgenses, a series of academic papers where he addressed specific criticisms and supplementary scientific problems..

Given at Marburg of the Chatti Marburg an der Lahn, Germany; "Cattorum" refers to the Chatti, a Germanic tribe associated with the region of Hesse. on the 29th day of March, 1731.

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