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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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truly it amOUNES FO nOmOrC,) but would have this understood, viz. ThaE
G0ld; 1. c. Wrhat has the real Fssence oF Gold is malleable, wtrich ammOUnES
tothus much, char Malleableness depends on, and is inseparable trom the
reat Fsence oF Gold. But a Nan, not lnoming wherein chat real Fsence
consilts, the connexion in his Mind oF Malleableness, is not truly wirh
an FITenCC HC KHOWS nOL, but only ith the sound Gold he purs for it.
Thus When re lay, chat Animal rarionale is, and Animal implume bibes
latis unenibus is nor a ∞00d detinition oF a Mlan; tis plain, re suppole
theName Man in this ease to stand Por the real FsenCe OF a SpecicS, and
erould signitie, chat a rational animal better deseribed thar real F.AenCC,
etran a tvo. leq d animal with broad Nails, and without Feathers. FOr
elso, wtiy misht noc Plato as proverls makee the N Orel, avepCONOS, Or Man-
Pand For his complex Idea, made up oF the Ideas oF a Body, distinoui
Med From others, by a certain chape and other ontvard appearances, 25
Aristorle, malce the complex Idea, to Which he save the Name aVBpCOnOS
Or Man- OEBOdY, and the Faculey ot reasonine join d togetler, unlessthe
name aiBpCOTOS, Or Man, vere supposed to stand for Lomethine elle, than
irtrat ic lienities, and the Ldea a Man protesses he rould express by it d
5. 28.Fistrue, the names of Substances would be muchmore uletul;
and Propolitions made in them much more certain, ere tho real F ssenCeS
OF Substances, the Ldeas in our Minds, Which those Words lignified. And
tisfor ant oF those real FsSenCeS, that our Nords conver (O litElCKNON
ledse or Certainty in our Discourses about them: And therelore the
Mind toremore chat Impersection as much as it can, makres chem, by 2
secret supposition, r0 Rand for a thins, havins thac real F ssence, a5 il
cherchr it made some nearer approaches to ir. For thoues the Word
Man or Sold, Signitie nothing truly but a complex idea ot Properties, uni-
Eed Eorether in one Pore ot Substances: L’et chere is scarce any Body in the
ule ot these WVords, but osten suppoles each ol those names to Aand for a
thino harino che real Fssence, on trhich thole Propercies depend; Which
is (0 far trom diminisinq the Imperlection of our Nords, that by a plain
Abule, it adds to it: wrtien re ould matie them sand for Lomethine,
Wrhich not beins in our complex Ldea, the name we ule, can no Ways BC
the sIBN OE.
6. F9. This Mews us the ReaIon, Why in mixed Modes any of the Ideas
chat mate the Composition of the complex one, beins lest out, or chansed,
it is alloved to be another thine, 1. c. to be of another Species,
25 i5 plain in Chancemedy; Mansaushter, Murcher, Parricide,
(5c. thie Reason Whereor is, because the complex Idea lignitied by
thatnamme, is the real, as ell as nominal Fsence; and there is no secret
reference os chatnaime tO any OEher F. NenCO, DVEFhaT. But in Substances,
it is nor 10. For though in that called Cold, one puts into his complex
Idea, Wrhat anocher lcares out; and vice Versa: zet Nen do not uluallY
thint, that theretore ihe Species is chansed: Becaule they secretly in
their Minds reser that name, and suppole it annexedco a real immutable
Essence oFathins exictins, on Which those Properties depend. Ho that
adds to nis complex Idea OF Cold, that os Fixedness, or Solubiliey in ag.
regia Erhich he put noc in it betore, is notthousht to have changed the
Species; but onty tohave a more pertect Ldea, by addins another, hich
is altvars in rerum natura joined with those other, ot whieh his former
complex idea consisted. But this reference of the name, to athins Wrhere-
OFre have not the Idea, is (0 tar from helpino at allu Chat it onlY serVeS
ehe more to involve us in Disticulties. For by this tacit reference to the real
Essence oF chat Spccies ot Bodies, ihe Word Cold (rrhieti by Aandine (or
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