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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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tobe able tocount to Seren, and has sor theName and Idea oF Equality. and
then uxon the explainins chole Words, he presenlr altents ro, or rather per-
ceires the Truth of that Propolition. But neither does hethen readily al
sene, becaule it is an innate Truth, nor ras his dsent vantins, rill then,
becaule he wanted the Qse of Reason; but the Fruthol it appears to him,
as soon as he has setled in his Mind the clear and dictinct Idca s, hat chese
Names Sand For: And then, he knoms the Pruth of that Propolition,
uxon the Parrie Crrounds, and br the lame means ehat he line betore,
That a Rod and Cherry are noc ehe lame chine; and upon the lairie
Cirounds al(o, that he may come to know alterwards, That it is impossible
for the same thinz to be, and not tobe, as We Mall more fully sieir here.
atter. So that the later it is belore any one comes to havethole ge-
neral Ideas, about erhich those Maxims are; or to know the Signitica.
tion oF those general Terms that Cand for them; or to put together ini
hisMind, the Idea sthey Cand For; the later allowillit bebelore he eomes
to alsent tothoseMaxims, Wrhose Terms, with the deasther Rand for
beins no more innate than those ot a Cat or a Noclel, he must May tilI
Time and Observation have acquainted tim riththem; and chen he wili
be in a Capacier, to know the Truth oFthese Plarims, uxon the ArstOc:
casion, that Mall malce him put together thole Ideas in his Mind, and ob.
serve Whether they agrec or dilagree, accordine as is expresed in tholé
Provolitions. And theretore it is, Thata Man Rnors that Fichtcen and
Nincteen, are aqual to Thirey Seven by the lame self. Fridence, chac helnos
One and Tvoto be equal tO Three: Vet, a Child KnOS FhAL, HOF (O POOM
25 the other; not For rant ol the ule ol Realon; but because ehe Ideas
ihc Nords Fighteen, Hinereen; and Thirey seven Cand POr, are nOL (O
soon For, as thole, which are signity d by One, Tiron and Threo.
D. T7. ThisFrasion therefore of general altent, whenMen comctotheuse
OF Reason, failins as it docs, and leavine no difterence betreen thole sup.
poled. innato, and other Truchs, that are alterrards acquired and learnt, Men
haveendearoured to secure an universal Assent to those ther call Maxims.
by Parins, thes are generals assented to, as soon as proposed, and the
Terins ther are proposd in, understood: Sccins altMen, even Children,
as oon as ther hear and understand the Terms, assent to thele PrOPOLi
tions, ther thins it is sufficient to prove them innate. Por Sinee Mem
never fail, asterther hare onceunderstood the Words, to acknor ledsethem
for undoubted Pruchs, ther vould interr, That certainty chole Provot
tions iere Arst lodsed in the Inderstandins, Wrhich, without anr ceach.
ing theMind, at very sirst Proposal immediatels eloles with, and astents
co, and alter thac never doubrs asain.
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Propolirion apon sirst hearine, and understanding the Perms, cbC D Cer
tain marte ol an innare Principle: IF it be noc, such a gencral altent is in
vain urged as a PrOOE OF them: IF it be said, that it is a marie of innate,
ther must thon allor all such Proxolitions co be innate, irhrich aro gene-
rallr alsented to as Coon as heard Wvhereby they will tindthemlolresplen
titullr Aored rith innate Principles. Por uxon the lame ground (Viz.)
OF Allent ac Arst hearine and understandino the Terms, ThatNen ould
haretholeMaxims passtor innate, ther must also admit severaleropolitions
aDoue Dumbers, to De innate, ThatOne and Twoare equal to Threc, That. Tuo
and Tvoare equal 50 Four, anda mulritude of other the litce Propolitions in
Bumbers, that every Body allents to, at tirst hearine, and understanding the
Cerms mult hare a placeqone l ctiese innate Axioms. Nor is chiis chc
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