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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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Relation.
most considerable Relations that e have anz notion of, and some that
scem to bethe most remote trom sense or Refection; Wrhich vec will ap-
pear tohare their ldeas from thence, and that the Norions re have ot
chem, are buc certain simple Ldeas, and (0 originally derired trom Sense
or Reflection.
8. 2O. Fourthly, Fhat Relation beins the considerine oF one thing with
another, Wtrich is extrinsical to it, it is erident, thac aI WN ords, that ne-
cellarils inter, and lead the Mind to any other Fdeas, thian are supposed
realls to exist in that thins, to which thie Word is applicd, are relative
Words; V. G. A Man BlackE, Merry, Thouxhetul, ThirAtY, ABGEY, Fx
tended; thele, and the likee, are all absolute, becaule ther neither signitie
nox intimare any thing, but What docs, or is supposed really to exist in
the Dian thus denominated: Buc Fatter, Brocher, Rino, HIusband, BIaC
Her, Merrier, C5c. are Nords, Which, together with the thine ther deno-
minate, imply also fomethins else separate and exterior to the existence ot
thatchins.
G. FF. Flaving laid doun these Premiles concernine Relation in general-
TBaII nor proccedto er in Comeinstances, how ail che Ldeas ere have
Ot Relation are made up, as the others are, only oF simple Ideas; and that
they all, hoir resined, or remote from sense loever they seem, terminate at
last in simple Ideas. TAiall begin with rhe most comprehensive Relation,
Wherein all thines chat do, or can exist, are concerned; and that is the
Relation oF Cause and PHect. The Ldea Whercot, how derived trom the
tro Fountains of all our Rnowledse, sensation and Reftection, I Mall in
the next place consider.
2+ 12 L. XXV1
D(ause and Fiffect, and other Relations.
S. L. TN chenotice, Thacour Senses take oP the constant Vicissitude OF LHII
e cannot but observe, that several parricular, both Oualities, ance
Substances beginto exist; ave that they receire this cheir Exiltence, trom
the due Application and Opetation oF lome other Being. From this Ob.
servation, ve get our Ideas ot cause and Fiffect. That irtich produces ans
Cimpre or complex Idea, we cehote by thegeneral Name Cause; andthat
Wtienis produced, sffect. Lius finding, that inchat Substance wrhich we
Cal Nax Fluiditr, Wrhich is a Cmple Ldea that WaS nOE in IE BCtOrO, 15
conllantli produced by the spplication ot a certain derrec of Hleat, ne
call ese simple Idca ot FICat, III celation to Fluidier in Wax, the C’aule ot
complek Ldea, contiltins ot a Collection oF simple Ideas, quire ditterent
trom chat complex Ldea, Wilen we cali Nood; e consider Fire, in re-
lacion to AMeS, a5 Cause, and the ABeS; aS F. Hect. So that Whatever is
conlicered by us, to conduce or operate, to the producine any parti
Mode, Wrhich did nor belore exist, haththereby in our Mindsthe relation
ot a Caule, and so is denominate d By US.
it; and Fluidiey the Ffect. S0 also Anding thac the Substance, Wood.
Whicit IS a certain Collection ot lten Ideas, (0 called, Will by the Appli-
cation of Fire, Deturned into anorster Substance, caIled AMeS; i. e. anOther
cular simple Idea, or Collection of simple Ideas, Whecher Substance, Or