# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com
# Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/727097563:0308
# Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/727097563:0308?run=74
# Title: A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity (shelfmarks ZEN Leibn. Marg. 40; Leibn. Marg. 40)
# Folio 236, page id 727097563:0308
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=727097563&page=308
# Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/727097563/jpgs/default/00000308.jpg
# Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 35 lines, status machine
# Lines: 35 recognised, mean confidence 0.91
# Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German.
# Licence: CC BY 4.0, Leibniz Legible. Machine output: do not ingest it as verified text; keep this provenance with the text.
# Wording rule: say "the machine reads it as …", never "Leibniz wrote".
# After the first blank line: the recognised lines in reading order, one per line.

AVindication of
stance is one oF the frst; becaule we Aind
that e can have no true Conceptions ot
any Modesor Accidents (no marrer Which)
but we must conceire a Substratum, or Sub.
jeet Wherein cherare. Since it is a Repus
naner eo our tirst Conceptions ot thunes
that Modes or Accidents Mould Liibsist By
themselves, and cheretore the Rationat Idea
eF Substance is one ofthe Frst, and most na-
tural Ideas in our minds.
BuE we are RiMI FoId, That our Onder-
standinque can have no other Ideas, but ei
ther from Sensation or Reftection. And That-
herein chiesty lies the Excellency of man-
kind above Brutes, that these cannot ab-
stract, and intarze their Ideas as men do-
Bur ho comesthe generat Ideaot Sub-
stance, to be tramed in our Minds: 15
ehis by Abstractine aud intarginq simple
Ideas: NO, but it is By a Complication of
many simple Ideas rocether: because not
E.2. ch. 23. macimine hou these simple Ideas ean sub-
sist by themselves, we accustom our sel ves to
suppose some Subltratum wherein ther do
subsist, and from whichther do result, wohich
therefore ve calt Substance. And is this
all indced, that is to be laid For the De-
ins ot substance, that ve accustom our selves
+0 suppose a Substratum: IS thac Custom
Groundedupon erue Reason ornot: IFnOL,
the
C.. 3.. CB. +.
sect. 5.
selt. 1.