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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
# Folio 183, page id 778263916:0199
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CMaP. Ld LL
True and F’alse Ideas.
formier and resemblance is axtributed to it, wrtrich it has nOt. But vet, il
havino framed such an Idea in my Mlind, Without chinkino, cither that
Existence, or thename Man, Or Tartar, belones to it, P Will calt it Man,
Or Partar, I mar be justly chouohe phantastical in the Namino; but nOE
erroncous in y fudgent; nor the dea anr vay false.
6. 26. Vpon che Wtiole matrer, P think, That Our Ideas, 25 they are
considered by the Mind, cither in reference to the prover signilication ot
theirNames; or in relerence to therealiey oF Thines, mar very sicly be
called riche, or vrone Ideas, accordins as they agree, or dilagree to those
Patterns to vrhich chez are reterred. But it ans onc had rather call them
true, or False, tis tr he use a liberey, Which everr onc has, to call Thinos
by those Names he chins best; chourh in proprietr of Specch, TrutH, or
Falthood, Will, Ichinth, scarce agree to them, but as thez, lome az or
ottrer, virtually contain in them lome mental Proxosition. The Ideas
thac are in a Mlans Mind, simpls considered, cannot berrone, untels
Complex ones, Wherein inconsittent parts are jumbled cogether. AII other
Ldeas are in themselres rioht; and the lnomlecse abour chem, risht and
true Rnomlede: Dut when e come to reter them to any thins, as to
their Patrerns and Archetypes, then ther are capable of being Wrons, 25
Far asther dilaprec wich such ArchetypeS.
6. 27. Tlarins thus siven an aceount of the original, TOrIS, and exteHE
oFour ideas, Wich several other Conliderations, about chese (I knor nor
Whether Imay Cay) Instruments, or Materials, ol our hnomledoe, the
ethodI ar Arst propoled to my selE, vould no require, that l Mould
immediatelz proceed to Mem, vtat ule the Inderstandine malies ot
chem, and What Anomledoe ve have by them. This was chat intict
in ehe tirst general viem lhad ofthis Subject, as all thacl thoupht
PBould have to do: lut uxon a nearer approach, I find, that there
is so clole a connexion betrreen ideas and Words; and our abstract
Ideas, and general Words, have loconstant arelation onetoanother, that
ic is impossible to speal cleartr and distinctly or our Rnowlecge, irhicu
al conlils in Propolitions, without considerine, trct, the Nature, Ile,
andSienitication ol Larguase; Which cheretore must be the bulinels or
the next BOOlE.
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