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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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Particles.
HOL eo be wondred, that most oF cliele Partieles have divers, arid some.
times almost oppolire significations. In the Hebrem Pongue, there is a
Particle consistine but ol one single Letter, oF whieh there are reckoned
up, asP rememiber, seventr, Tam sure above Asty several sionifications.
8. 5. B2 Y is a Particle, none more Familiar in our Languase: and he
that lays it is a discretire Conjunction, and that it ansvers Sed in Latim,
er Mais in French, chiriles he has surficieney explained it. But yet it
seems to me to intimate several relations, the Mind sives to the several
Propolitions or Parrs of them, Which it joins by this monosz Ilable,
First, BV Y eo say no more: Flere it intimates a Aop of elieMind, in
thie course it ias goiriz. betore it carrie to the end oEii.
Secondlr, Ysau B~ T tuo Planets: FTere it MeS, that the Mind
liits the sense ro irtrat is expresed, rrith a negation ot all otlier.
ThirdIY, Ton prayz BD Y it is not that GOD nould brine jou to the
true Relirion,
Fourthly, BVY chai he vould confirm jou in jour oion: The First ol
these BZ TS, intimates a supposition, in the Nlind, oF somethino other:
Wise chan it Mould bes the lacter Mers, chat the Mind malies a direet
opposition betreen thai, and What soes belore it. i
FIsthIY, All Animals have sense; B2 T a Doq is an animal: FTere il
signities lictle more, but chacthe lacier Proposition is joined to rhe formeri
25 the Minor oF a SyVlogism.
5. 6. Fochele, Idoubt nor, mishe be added à greae manis other signi.
fications of this Particle, il it ere my businels to examine it in its TuII la-
titude, dnd consider ie in all che places it is eo be Pound: Whien it one
Mouid do, Idoube, Whecher in all chose manners ic is mado usc of, it
erouid deserre the title of Discretive, ertrich Grammarians sire to it. Buc
I intend nochere à FuIl explication ot this Pore oF Siens; the instances I
have giren in this one, may sive occasion to reflect upon their use and
Force in Languase, and lead us into the contemplation of several actions
oFour Minds in discoursing, Wtich it has found a ray to intimate to
Others by these Particles, Lome Whiereot constantr, and others in cor
tain constructions, have the serse of a whole sentence contaiti d in
thiem.
C+L LL L. VII
Os abstract and concrete ACtn.
D. T.
neral FllenceS, Wherebr the Sores of Phinos are distinguistied: NOW CaciI
abstraet Ldea beino distinct, (o that the oric can never b0 che orhet, u
Mind ill, by ies intuicive Rnouledse, perceive their difference; ana
Theretore in Propositions, no tro wliole ideas can ever be attirmed one
oF arocher. This ve sec in ehie common usc oF Languase, W
permits not any tuo abstract Wrords, or Names of abstract Lacas, W0uas
Fe ordinars Words of Languase, arid our comirion ise ot
them, rould have sivert us neno ene nalueo ou Lacus,
it thes hadbeen but considered rith artention The Mind, as has beeri
Menn, has a porerto abstract its ideas, and (o thei become Flences, se-
firmed one of another. For lion eat et huttoore ines ias lecit lodes
and hoW certa   lon Ca ra o du lla O Lullolla O WllC.