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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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ruth in Erioo.
BookIV
common Wordsoltheir Languase, yet verhaps never troubled chemselves
in all cheir Lives, to consider irhat precise Ideas the most of them Aood
For: Some consuled or obleure Notions have serrec Meir turns; and ma-
ny who talle very much oF Religion and Conscienco, oi Church and FaitH,
ot Porver and Rishr, of Obstructions and Hlumours, Melancholi ard
Choler, Wouid, perhaps, have licele lese in their Thoughs and Medita-
tions, it one tould desire them to think only of che Things themselves,
and lay by thole Words, with irhich they (o often contound otters, and
not seldom themlelres al(o.
5. 5. But toreturn to the consideration of Frurt. We uC, IFaV, ct-
serve ro Corrs oE Propoliions, that we are capable ol matins.
First, Mental, Wherein the Ideas in our Inderstandines are Withour
the use oF Words put rocether, or separatest by the Mind, perceivins, Or
judsins ocheir AEreement, or Dilagreement.
Seconaly; Verbat Propositions, ertrichare Nords the lions otour Idcas
put tosether or separate d in afirmative or necative Sentences. By Wtick
ar et aftirmine or denzino, chese Signs, macle Dy Sounds, are as it Were,
Dur togetheror separated onc trom another. So that Propolition contilts
in joinins, or separatins Signs; ard Truth consists in the puriins toge-
cher, or separatins thele Signs, accordins a5 the Thinss chey stand Tor
doree or disagree.
6. 6. Fverr ones Experience will Parissie him, thac the Mind, cither By
perceivins or suppolins the Agreement or Dilagreement oE any oE iIs
Ideas, does tacitti within it self put ehem into a bind ot Propolition
attirmatire or negatire, Which I have endeavoured to express by the
terms Putrins rogether and Separating. Bur ehis Action oF the Mind,
erhrich is (0 Farmiliar to every chintins and realonins Man, is calier tolc
conceired by reflecting on irhrat passes in us, hen we reason judec, or sup-
Dole, than to be explained by Words. Whena Manhas in hisMind che Ldea
Ot tro Lines, viz. the side and Diagonal ot a Square, erhereot the Diago-
nalis an Inch lons, hemay have the Idea also ofthe divition of thatLine,
into a certain number ot equal parts; 2. 9. into Five, Ten, an IIundrec,
a Thouland, or any other Number, and mar have the dea ot that Inch
Line, beins divisible or Bot divisible, into sucM equal ParES, a5 a certain
nuriber of them illbe equal to the Side line. Nor Wvhenerer he per-
ceives, velieres, or suppoles such a kind ot Divisibility to aorec or dil-
dgree to his Idea oF chat Line, he, as ie ere, joins or separates those
tVo Ideas, viz. thC Idea OFthat Line, and the Idea oF cHat hind oF Di-
visibilier, and so matres a mental Proposition, ertrich is erue orfalse, ac-
cordins as such a lind of Dirilibility, a Dirilibility into such ali-
quot parts, docs reals) acree to that Linc, or no: And when Ideas are
(o puttosether, or separated in the Mind, as they or the Thines they
Atand For doacree, or nOc, that is, 25 I may caIl it, mental Truth. But
Truch of Words is Comething more, and that is the aftirmins or denvins
ot Words one of anocher, as the Ideas they Aand For agree or dilaoree:
And this again is is trotold, cither purely Verbal, and tristino, wtricHY
Mall Speak OF, Chap. FO. or Reat and instructive; Which is che Object ol
thatreal Knomledge, Wrhich ve hare spoten ot already.
5.7. Buc here again rill be apt to occurr the lame doubr about Truth.
that did about Knomledoe: And it ill be objected, That it Fruth be no-
thing but the joinins or separatins oF Nords in Propolitions, as the ideas
ther Aand for aeree or disagree in Mens Mind, the Hnomledse oF Zruth
15 not so valuable a Thinc, a5 it is taken to be; nor Worth the Pains and
Time Men imploy in the leareh oFit: Sir ce by ihis accouns, iE BOUNES LO RO
MOTE