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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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Names et Substances
derstandine, bue in a stranse Counery, with aII Fhinss neu, and untenoir
about him; and no ocher Faculties, to attain the Rnomledse olthem, Dut
What one ofchis Age has nor. ISe oblerres Lamechmore melancholy than
ulualque and imagines it to be trom a suspicion hehasof his Wise Adah, whom
hemost artentls loved, thar Be had to0 much HindneIS FOr anOtheF MLan.
Adam discourses these his Thoughes eo Fve, and desires her to talie care
that Adah commit noc FoIIY: And in these Dilcourles with sive, He
males ule oF these tro nem Words, Kinneah and Niouph. Intime, Adame
mistale appears, for lic finds Lamechs Prouble procceded From havins
Hilld a Plan: Bur yet tho tvo Names, Kinneah and Niouph; the one
standins For suspicion in a Husband, ot his Wives Distoraler cohim; an l
che ocher, For the Act oF commitrino Distoraler. Ie is plain chen, FMaF
here vere ero distinct complex Ideas of mixed Modes, With Names t0
them, tvo distinct Species of Actions essentialIY different, I adtE Where-
in consist che Essences oF these ero distinet Species ot ACtions, and tis
plain, ix consisted in a precile Combination oF simple Ideas, different in
one trom the ocher. Pasic, Whecherthe complex Idea in Adams Mind
eytrich he calld Kinneah, vere adequate, ox no: And it is plain it WaS-
For it beins a Combination of simple Paeas, Which he ithout regard eo
ny Archetrve, without respect ro any thins as a Patrern; voluntarily pur
eorecher, abstracted and save the NamO KinneahFO, EO expresS in PIOrE HO
others, by that one sound, aIl the simple Ideas contained and uniced in
that coplex one, it must necessarili FollOW, Fhat ic WaS an adeguate
Edea. Flis omn choice harins made that Combination, it had all in it he
incended it Bould, and (0 could not but be persect, could nOt but BC
adequate, it beins reterr d to no other Archetrpe, Whrich ic iras suppoled
Eo represent.
6. 44. These Words, Hinneah avd Niouph, By degrees erem into com-
mon usc; and then the ease as somehat altered. Adam S Children had
The sene Faculties, and FherCBY tHC samE POrer, thaF he hac, EO mate
rhos complex Ideas ofmixed Modes they pleased in their orn Minds;
Eoaract them; and malce What SoundS ther pleased, Fhe SignS OF FHCMS
BuE Cheuse OF NameS, Being to male our Ldeas Within us BnOWN 1O O-
thers FhaE cannot be donc, but when the lame Sien sands Por the same
Idea in tro, irho vould communicare cheir Thouslts and Discourse to-
Dether. Thole cheretore oF adams Children, chat Found thele EWO
Nords, Kinneah and Nrouph, in Pamiliar ale, could noc cake them For in(is
niticane Pounds: but must necds conclude, cher Aood For Comettrino, for
certain Ideas, abstract Ldeas, thez beins general Names, Wrhich abstract
Ideas vere theFssences of the Species, distinguished by thole Names. II
cheretore they wonld use these Words, as Names of Species, already eMta-
Blistid and agreed on they ivere obliged to contorm the Ideas in cheir
Minds, Signihied by these Names, Fothie Ldeas that ther Rood For in orher
etens Minds, and tocontorm their Ldeas tothem, as to their Patterns and
Archetrpes; and chenindced cheir Ldeas of these complex Modes, tere
liable to be inadequate, as Beins very apF (especialY those that consist:
ed of Combinations of many simple Ideas) not to bC exactlr contorma-
ble to the Pdeas in ocher Men S Minds, uline thc Tame Names; thouoh
tor chis, there be ulually a Remedy at Hland, erhich is, to astr the meg-
nins ol any Word e understand noc, ot him chat ules it: it beine asim.
postible, to knom certaintr, What the Words scalousie and Adulterr
Cerhicli Ichink ansiver Ha and sS) StandFor in anocher Mans Mind,
rich erhom Pvould discourse about them; as it eras impossible, in the
Besinnins os Languaso, co limo what Rinveah and Wiouph Aood for in
anocher