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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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fectli contorrable to them.
5. 3. Foche well distinguisinz our Ldeas, it chieAr contribures, that
ther be clear and determinate: And When they are l0, it will not breed
aur confusion or mistale aboui them, though the Senses thould (a5 Tome.
times chey do) conver them from ehie same Object differently, on dif-
ferent occasions, and sosecm to err. For thoush a Man in a Fever, Mould
From Sugar have a bierer taste, wrhieh at another time rould produce a
TIrcet one; vet the Ldea oF Bieter in that Man SMind, Would be as clear
and distinct trom the Ldea OF Sireet, as it he had tasted ontr GalI. Nor
doeS IE MAIEO aNY MOrE CONFSIOM BOTWCCN FHE tWO Ideas OF SirCet and
Bitter, that the same sOre OF Body produces at one rime onc, and at
anorter time another Ldea, by thecalte, than it malces a contusion in the
tvo Ideas oF Whire and Sireet, or White and Rounel, that the lame piece
OF Sugar produces ehem both in the Mind at the laime time. And che
Ideas of Oranse colourand Azure, that are produced in the Mind By the
Pame parcel ot the insusion oF Zignum Nephriticum, are no lels dictinct
Ideas, than thole ol the lame C olours, talsen trom two very difterent
Bodies.
6. 4. The C’DMPARTNC chem orie wich anocher, in respect oF
Fxtent, Degrees, Time, Place, or ans other circumstances, is anocher
operation ot theMind about its Ldeas, and is chat upon wrhicli depends al
that larse tribe ot Ideas, comprehended under Relation; Wtich of hou
vastan extent it is, P Mallhare occasion to consuer hereatter.
6. 5. FTor Par Brutes parratce in this faculer, is not ealie to determine;
limagine ther have it not in ans great desree: For thouehi cher proba-
bly have several Ideas distina enoug, ver ic scems to me ro be the Pre-
rogntire oF Hlumane Understandins, irhen it has sufficieney distingui-
Med any Ideas, (0 as to perceirethem tobepertectr different, and locon-
sequentr erro, to cast about and consider in What circumstances ther are
capable to be compared. And FherCtOrE, PthinkE, Beasts compare HOF
their Ideas, Farther ehian lome sensible Circumstances annexed to theOF
jects themselres. The other porver of Comparins, Which may De obler.
ved inMen, belongiriss to general Ideas, and uletul only to abstract RCa
Tonings, remar probabls conjecture Bealts have not.
5. 6. Thenext Operation Wre ay observe inthe Mind about its Ideas,
is COMPOSTT FON; Whreroby it purs together several of those simple
ones it has receired trom Senlarion and Reflection, and combines them
into complex ones. Under this of Compolition, may De rection d allo chat
OF F N L AROTNO; Wherein thoush the Compolitiondoes noc l0 muet
appear, a5 in more complex ones, vet it is nevertheless a puttine several
Ideas rogether, choughos the lamme kind. Thus by adding several Vnites
rogecher, We makce the Ldea oF a dozen; and puttins together the re-
Peated Ideas oF several Perches, We Frame that of a Furlons.
5. 7. TA EIs al(O, ISuppOse, Brutes Come Far MONE OF MTaN. FOr thousII
ther take in, and retain cogether several Combinations of simple Ideas,
as postibls che Strape, Smell, and Voice oF his Ntaster, matre up a Com-
plex Idea a Dos has oFhim, or rather are (0 mans distinet Marles erhere.
Dy heknows him; vet, Ido not chinke ther do ot themselres ever com-
pound them, and mate complex Ideas: And perhaps even irhere e
chinlether have complex Ideas, ris only one simple one chat directs
ehem in theknom ledse of severat thingo, irhich possibly cher distinguit
less by cheir Sighe, chan we imagine. For Phave been crecibly intomed,
that a Biteh willnurse, play wichu and be lond oyouns FOxes, as muct