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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
# Folio 245, page id 778263916:0261
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CitaP. 2.
Gune sych thing realIY in Nature, dictinst From Body, as tis evident, the
Nord Master Cands For an Ldea dictinet trom the Idea oF Body. Por it
the Ldeas thesetro Perms Rood For, vere precisels che lame, eher mishe
inditterenty in all Places be put one for the other: buc we scc, that tho
ic be proxer 10 Pay, There is one Marter of all Bodies, One CanNOL CaY,
There is one Body of al Matrers. We lamiliarly lay, one Body is bigger
than another, out it Counds harI (and P chink is never uled) t0 laY, one
Marrer is bigser than another. Whence comes this then. Viz. From
hence, that thoushr Matrer and Body be noc really distinct; but Wrhere- ever
there is one, there is the otter: Vet Matrer and Body, Aand For tvo dif-
ferent Conceptions, Whereos the one is incomplere, and buE a part oF
the ocher. For Body Aands Por a Tolid extended figured Substance, irhere.
OF Matrer is but a partial, and more contuled Conception, it scemins to
me tobe used Cor the Substance and Soliditr of Body, Wichout tateins in
its Extension and Figure: And therelore itis chat speakins oF Master, we
speak oF it alvarsas one, becaule in Truth, it exprels contains nothine
Dut the Idea oF a solid Substance, wrhich is evers irhere the lame, erery
irhrere unitorm: And cheretore ire no more conceire, or spcak oP different
Matters in the Worid, than we do oF different Solidities; though Wre bOrH
conceire, and speale of different Bodies, because Fxtension and Pisure are
capable oE variation. Bur since Solidity cannor exist without FxtentiOn,
and Fixure, the taling Matter to be the name ol lomethine realli existine
under that Precision, has no doubr prodiced those obscure and unintelli-
sible Discourses and Dispures, Wrhich hare Ailled the Heads and B0Oks ot
Philosopters concernine Materia Prima; Which impertection or Abule,
hon far it mas concern a great mans other general Terms. I lcave tobe
considered. This, PchinlE, I may at least Pay, chat we Mould have a preat
many Terver Dispures in the World, il Words mere taken for irtrat they
are, tho siens ot our Ideas onl, and noc for Things chomselves. FOr
ertien re argue about Matrer, or any the like Term, we truly argue on
Ir about the Idea e expross by that Sound, whether, chat precile Idea
aerec to ans thine really existins in Nature, Or no. And is Nen ouid
cell, irhac Ideas they make their Words Cand for, there could not be halt
thatObscurity or Wranslins, in the scareh Or supPOrt oL Pruch, that
therc 15.
5. 26. Bur whatever inconrenience Collons trom ehis mistakc oF Nords,
ehis Tam sure, chac by constant and familiar ulc, ther charm Men into
Nocions Par remoretrom the Fruch oF Things. Fvould De a hard Mat
ter to persuade any one, that the Words hich his Facher or School-
Plaster the Parson of the Paristr, or sueh a Revend Doctoruled, sionified
nochins chat really existed in. Nature: Which, perhaps, is none of the least
Causes, that Menare so haraly drann zo quit their Mistakes; even in Opis
nions purely philosophical, and ertiere ther have no ocher Interest but
Truch. For che Words, they have a lons time been uled ro, remainins
tirm in cheir Minds, tis no monder, chat the wrons Horions, onnexed to
them, Bould noc be removed.
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6. 17. Fischly, Anocher abuse of Words, is the sertins tbem in ibe
place of Thines, Which they do or can by no means signifie. Nemas oblerve,
that in the general names oF Substances, wrhereot the nominal Fssences
are outi Knorn tOus, Wrhen ve pue them into Propolutions, and altirm Ox
deny any chins about chem, e do most commonly tacitly suppole, or
incend, chey Mould stand for the real FSence, ot a certain sort ot Substances.
For irhen a Man Pays Crold is malleable, he means, and vould insinvate
Comechine more chanchis, thac Wtiat l. Call Crold is malleables (chous 
crulus