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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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Simple Modes of Space.
Thanc of infinite Space; tho ic be true, that the Word Place, lias Lometimes
a more contused sense, and stands for that Space, Wrhieh any Boay takes
up; and (o che Vniverse is in a Place
S. TF. The Idea cherefore ot Place, we have by the lame teanS, thaF
WC GeF the Ldea OF Space, (Wrhereofthis is but a particular limited Consi-
deration, viz. BY our Sisht and Touch; by cither ot Wrhich ese receive in.
Eo our Minds the Ideas OF Extension or Distance.
5. F2. There are Lome that Would persuade us, that Body and Zxtension
are the same thine; Who cicher chanse the Sionification ot Words, Which
Prould not suspect them of, ther havino (0 leverely condemned ehe Phi-
losophy oF octers, because ic hath been too much placed in the uncertain
meanins, or deceittul obscurier ot doubetul, or insignificant PCrIS. II
Theresore ther mean Dy Body and Fxtension the same, that other P’eorle do,
viz. BY Bocy Tomething that is solid, and exrended, WhOle PATES are Sep2-
rable and movable different ays; and by Cixtension, onlY Fhe SpacC FMaE
lies betreenthe Extremities of those solid coherent Parrs, and Which is pol
sessed by them, thes consound very disserent Edeas one rith another.
For I appeal to cvery ManS onn Thocetus, Whether the Idea ot Spacebe
not as distinst trom that ot Solidier, as ic is From ihe Idea OF SCarIeF. C9.
Iour:Tis erue, Solidiey cannor exist Withont Extension, neither Can SCar-
let Colour exist rithout Extension; bur this hinders not, buc that chey
are distinct Ideas. Mans Ideas require otters, as necellary to their
Existence or Conception, irtich vet are very distinst Ideas. Morion can
neitter be, nor be conceived without Space; and y et Motion is not Space,
nor Space Motion; Space can exist without it, and they are very distinct
Ideas; and (o Fthinte, are those ot Space and Solidier. Solidits is so in-
Separable an Idea trom Body, that uxon thac depends its Allins oE Space,
ies Contact, Impusse, and Communication of Morion uxon Impulse. And
iF it be a Realon to prove, that. Spirit is ditterent trom Body, because Thint-
ins includes not the Ldea oF Extension in it; the same Realon ill DC as
valid, I suppose, to prove, that Space is not Body, because it includes nOc
the Idea oF Solidier in ic; Space and Solidity beins as distinet Ideas, 25
Thinking and Fxtension, and as Wrholly separable in the Mind onc from
another: Body then and Fxtension, tis evidene, are tro dictinct Ideas3
tor First, Extension includes no Solidity, nor resistence to the Motion OE
Bocy, as Bocy does. SccondIY, The Parts ol pure space are inseparable
one From the orter; (o that the Continuity cannot be separated, neither
really, nor mentally. For I demand ol any one, to remore any part of it
From anocher, with which it is continued, even s0 much as in ThougHt.
To diride and separate actuall) is, as P Fhinke, by removins the parts one
from another, to matce trro Superticies, erhere betore there as a Conti-
nuiey: And to diride mentallY, is to makre in the Mind tO SuPerHCICS,
rhere before there as a Continuier, and consider them as removed one
From the other; Wrhich can onty be done in chings considered by themind,
as capable of being separated; and by separarion, ot acquiring nem distinct
Superficies, Wtich ther then have noc, but are capable ot: But neither
Of these ars oF Separation, Whrether real or mental, is, as Lthink, COM-
Datible to pure Space.
6. F3. Tis truO, a NIAA MAY COHHIMLL AO HIIACHOT TAICIL a SpacC, do I
ansirerable or commenturate to a Foor, Without considerino the rest; whicl
is indeed a partial Consideration, but not s0 much as mental Separation
Or Dirision; Tince a Man ean no more mentally diride, Without consi-
deriris erro Superticies, separate ono trom the other, chan hre can actualtr
diride, wichout makrins ruo superticies disjoin d one tromthe other:
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