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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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in comparison, probablr, 25 a Faste of hat intellectual Creatures are ca
pable ot, to excite in us a Desire and Fndeavour aster a better StatC: S0
in the greatest part ot our Concernmene, he has affordod us onlr the tvi-
liohF, as IMaY (O PaY, OF Probabilier, Suirable, I presume, FOxtat Stare oF
Medioerity ane Probationerhip, he has been plealed to place in us here;
rherein we mishEnot be over consiclent, and presume; but migHE bY e.
verr das sExperience be made sensible of our Morr-Sighrecness and liable.
nels FOFrror; Which might be a constant Admonition tO us, to spend the
dazs olchis our Pilsrimase with Indultry and Care, inthe scarch, and F0)-
lorrins oF chat ay, irhich mighe lead usto a State ot greater Persection.
Tebeiro hiohr rational to think, evenwhere Revelation issilene in the Case
That as Men etploy those Palenes, Cod has siven them, here, thex MalI
accordinely receive their Retards at the close oF che day, Wen their Sun
MalL ser, ane Nighe Mail put an end to their Labours.
5. 3. The FaCuIH, Which God has given Ntan co enligheen him, neNL 10
clear and certain Hnomledoe, is Fudement: Whereby the Mind talies its.
Ideas toagrec, or disagree; or ertrich is the lame, any Proposition to De
eruez or false, without perceirive a demonstrarire Fvidence in the ProolS.
The Mind sometimes exerciles this Judoment out ot necessity, ihere de-
rionstrative Proots, and certain Hnovledoe are not to be had; and lome
times out of Laxinels, CInssilsulness, or HTaste, even irhere demonstrative
and certain Prools are to behad. Men olten staz noc varily to examine
the Aoreement or Dilagreement or tro Ldeas, ertrich they are delirous,
or concerned to lto; bur cicher incapable ot sueh Atrention, as is re-
quisite in a lons Train oE Cractations, or impatient of delay, lighelr sur-
ver, or ertrolly pals over the Proofs; and so without malrine out the
Demonstrarion, determine olthe Agreement or Dilaereement ot two Ldeas,
as it vere by a vier oPthem, as thez are at a distance, and tatse it tobe the
one or the orher, 2s scems most likely to them upon sucha loose lurver.
This Faculer os the Minc, wrhen ic is exerciled immediatels about Things,
is called fudement; Wtien about Fruths delivered in Nords, is most com-
monly called Asent or Dissent: Wtrich beins themost usual waz, erhere.
in the Mind has occalion to emplo this Faculey, L Mall under these Perms
treat oF it, as lealt liable in our Languase to F. quivocarion
6. 4. Thus che Mind has tuo Faculcies, converlant about Fruch ane
Falsood.
First, Knomledse, Whereby it certainly perceires, and is unloubredly
Patistied of the Aoreement or Disagreement ot any Ideas.
Secondly. Fudsment, which is the purrine Ideas tosether, or separa-
tins ehem trom one another in the Miind, Wrtien their certain AOreement,
or Dilaoreement is not perceived, Dut presume d to be (0; Wtriehis, 25 the
Wordimporis, talren to be lo vetore it certaintr appears. And if it (0
unires, or sexarares chem, as in Realiry Fhines are, il is rietc Fudement.