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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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Maxims
5. 27. Seconaly, Another thac hath gone Farcher in traming and col-
lecting ehe Fdca he callS Man, and to the outmard Strape acds L. aughter
and rarional Dilcourle, mas demonstrare, char Intants and Changelings
are no Bten, by this Maxim, Lt is impossible for thesame Thine tobe, and
not tobe: And Thave diseoursed with verr rational Men Wrho have
actually denied that thez are Men.
5. 28. Thiraly Perhaps, another matses us the complex idea which
he calls Man- onty one of the Ldeas ot Body in general, and the POVerS
Os Languase and Realon, and lcares out che Strape Wholly: This Man
is able to demonstrate, that a Man mas have nottands, but De Zuadrupes
neither ot those beins included in his Idea ol Man; and in whatever
Body or Strape he Found Specch and Reason join d, that was a Man: De
cause havins a clear hnorledse oF such a complex Idea, it is certain, that
INat 15, 15.
5. 19. Sothac, ilristuly considered, Pchink we may lar; that where our
Ldeas are clear and distinct, and rhe WTames acreed on, that Mhall Ctand for
cach elear and discinet Idea thereis little necd, or no ule at allof theseMa-
xims, toprore the agreement, or dilagreement ot, any ofthem. FIC thac
cannoc discern ehe Fruth or Falshood ot such Propolitions, without the
help of chese, and the lihe Maxims, will not be helped by chele Maxims
eo doic: Tince hecannot be suppoled io no the Truth ot thele Ma-
ximsthemselves ichout proot, it he cannor lnom the Fruth ol others
Withorit proot, rhichare as selfevident as chele. Andupon the veir
Came grounds, intuitire Knomledse neither requires nor admirs ans proct,
onc part ot it more than another: Fre that will suppose it, docs take avay
the foundation of allunoledge, and Certaints: And he that necds any
proot eo malce him certain, and sive his Asent to this Propolitions that
Trro is equal eo Tvo, will alsohave necd of a proot to malce him admit,
that What i5, i5. HIe that necds a probation to convince him, that Two
is not Threo, that White is nor Blacke, that a Triansle is not a Circle, (5c.
or ans other to elear distinet Ideas are not one and the lame, rillneed
also a demonstrarion to convince him, chat it is impossible for the same
Thine t0 be, and not to be.
5. 20. Andas thele Maxims are of little use, prhere e have clear and
dictinat Ideas, (o they are, 25 Thare Meved, oF dangerous ule, irhere
our Ideas are nor elear and dittinet; and where we ule Words that are
not annexed ro clear and distinet Ideas, but to fuehr as arc oF a loole and
anderins signitication, Tometimes Candins Forone, and lomerimes for
another Idea; trom wrhrich follons miltatre and errour, Which these Ma-
Xims (brousht as. Proots to chablist Propolirions, Wherein the terms
Rand for contused or uncertain Ideas) doby their Authorits contirmand
rivet.
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