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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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Relation.
named; and no body over. looks, or doubrs ol a Relation, ertiere it is le
plainly intimated. Bur irhiere Languages have tailed to sive correlatire
Names, therethe Relation is rot alvars so casily talcen nocice oF. C On-
cubine is, no doubt, a relatire Name, as veil as Wite, but in Lanolages
erhere this, and the litze Nords, hare not a correlatire term, there People
are not (0 apt to talce them to be (o, as ivantins that evident Mank oE
Relation, Wrhich is betrreen Correlarires, Which leem to explain one ano.
ther, arid not to be ableto exist bur togetlier. Hence ic is, that manr of
those Names, erhich duly considered, do include cvident Relations have
been called External Denominations: Bur all Names, that are more thari
emper sounds, mult signitie some Ldea, Which is cirher in the chineto
erhiche ehe name is applied; and then it is polirive, and is looted on 25
united to, and existinq inche Thing to Whieh the Denomination is given;
Ox else ic arises trom the respect che Mind fnds in ie to Comething di
Binst from ic, with erhichi ic considers ic; and then it includes a RC.
lation.
8. 3. Another sort oFrelative terms there is, wtrich iare not looled, on
to be cither relarire, or so much as external Denominations; wbich VCE,
underthe form and appearance ol lisnitrins somethinq absolure in che
Subject, doconccal a racit, chioushi lels obserrable, Rolation; luch are the
Sceminely positive terins oF Old, Creat, Impertect, (56. Whereot Y MalI
hare occasion to speale more at larse in the follorving ChapterS.
5. 4. Fhis Carther mas be observed, That the Ldeas ol Relarion, may
be the lame in Nen, irhro have tar differene Ideas of the Fhines that are
related, or that are thus compared; v. q. those wtio have lar ditterent
Ideas oF a Man, may ver aeree in the notion oE a Father; Wtrichr is a
notion superinduced to the Substance, or Man, and reters only to an act
Othat thing called Man; Whoreby it contribured to the Generation of
one of his omn Kind, lec Man bewhat it will.
6. 5. The nature theretore of Relation, consilts in the reterring, orcom
parins erro thinss, one ro another; from which comparison, one or boch
comes to be denominated: And it cither of those chings be remored, or
cease to be, the Relation ceases, and the Denomination consequent to it,
thoush the other receire in it self no alteration at all; v. 8. Cajus, Whom
Tconiicer to day a5 a Father, ceales ro be sotomorro, only bythe deattu
ot his Son, ithout ans alceration made in hmsell; nar, barels by che
Mlinds chansins ihe Object, to which it comrares any rhing, the lame
thins is capable of travins contrary Denominations ac ehe lame time;
V. 5. Cajus, compared to several Persons, may truly be laid tobe Older,
and Tounger; Stronger, and Weaker, (56.
6. 6. Whatloever doch, or can exist, or be considered as one thine, is
posicire; and so not ouly limple ideas and Subltances, hut Modes also
are politire Beings; thoush the parts, of which cher consist, are verz often
relative one toanother: but the whole together considered as onehine.
and producins in us the complex Idea ot one eliine; Which Idea is in
our PTinds, a5 ons l’icture, choush an asgresate of divers parts; and un-
der one name, it is a policire or absolute lhins, or Idea. Thus a Friangle,
chouph the parts thereot, compared one to another, De relative, yet tho
Ldca ot thewhole, is a positire absolute Idea. The lame may be laid ot à
Fatrily, a Pune, (5c. For chere can De no Relation, but berwixt tvo
Thines, considered as erro Thines. There must alivars be in relation
tro ldeus, er Thines, cither in themselves really separare, or considered a5
dictinst, and chen sround or occalion for their comparilon.