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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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BC
Names of Substances.
eNES; BuE C our selres divide them, by certain obriouS apPCaTANCES,
into Species, that wemaz the calier, under general names, communicate
about them. For haring no octier lnomledse of ans substance, but ol
the simple Ideas, that are united in it; and observine several particular
Thinos, to aorce rith others, in several os those simple sdeas, We matie
that Collection our specitick Idea, and sive it a general name; thac in re-
cordino our omn Thoughts, and Discourse withorhers, We maz, in one
More ord, desion all the Indivicuals that aorce in chat complex Idea;
ithout enumeratins the simple Ldcas, chat make it up: and (0 nor walte
Our Time and Breath in cedious Deseriptions: Wrhich e lec ther are tain
todo, who rvould discourse ot ans nerr (ort of Thires, they hare nOL YeL a
Hame FOr.
5. 30. But horverer, these Species oF Substances pals Well enoup h in Or=
dinary Conversation, it is plain enough, that this complex Idea Wtiere.
in ther obserre several Individuals to agrec, is, by different Men, made
very differently; by Pomemore, and others lels accuratelr. In Pome,
ehis complex Ldea contains a greater, and in others a lnaller number ot
Dualities; and so is apparenttr such as the Mind makresit. The velloii
Mrinins colour, makes Crold ro Children; others add Weight, Malleable.
nels, and Fusibiliey; and others yet other Oualities, ther find joined
With that vellon Colour, as constanes as its Weishe or Fusibilitr. FOr in
al thele, and thelitee Qualities, one has as cood a righe to be pur into
the complex Idea oF thac Substance, Wrherein ther are all join d, as ano-
cher. And theretore different Men lcavins out, or purtins in several sim-
ple Ideas, Wrtrieh others do nor, accordine to their various Examination,
Still, Or Oblervation ol that subject, have different Fssences of 6ola;
erhich must cherelore be oFtheir omn, and not oF Nature S malsins.
9. 8F. IEthe number of simple Ideas, that make the nominal F Sence ot
etre lowest Species, or Crst Porrins ot indiriduals, depend on the Mind OF
Man, varioussy collectins them; it is much more evident, chat they do
F0, in the more comprehensire Classes, Which, by the Macters oF Logick,
are called Genera, trhich are complex Ideas designedr impertoct; out
ofrrhich, are purposelr lest out several ol those Oualities, etat arc eo BC.
found in ete Thines chemselves. For a5 the Mind, to matre general
Ideas comprehendinq several particulars, leares ont thole ol Fime, and
Place, and such othier, thar makre ehrem incommunicable io more than one
Individual, (o to malie octier vet more general Ideas, chat mas comprehend
difterent Tores, it leares out chole ualities, chat diltinoniehem, and puis
into its new Collection, onty sueh Ideas, as are common to several TOrts.
The Pae conrenience that iade Men exprels sererat parcels ot vellon
Matier comine trom Ouiny, and Peru,under one name, sets them also uxon
makcinu ot one name, that maz comprehend borh Crold, and Silver, and
Tome other Bodies oF disserent forts, Which it does by the lame mar ot
lcavins out those Oualities, irhich are peculiar to cach Port; and rotais
nins a complex ideas made up ofthole, that are common to cact Species:
torrhich ehc mame Meral beine annexed, thereis a Genus consticuted; che
ESsence thiereot beins that abltract Ldea, containins only Malleableness
and Fusibiliry, with certain degrees oF Weight and FixedneS, Wherein B0.
dlies of leveral hrinds aoree, leaves out the Colour, and othier Gualiries pe-
caliar to CFold, and Silver, and the ottier Ports comprehended under the
rame Metal. Whrerebr ic is plain, thac Nen follor not exactr che
Patterns set them by Nature, Whienther makie their general Ideas ot Sub-
stances; since there is no Body tobe found, which has barelz Malleablo.
nels and Fusibiliry in il, wictour ocher Qvalities as inseparable as chole.
But