# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0350 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0350?run=74 # Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38) # Folio 334, page id 778263916:0350 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=778263916&page=350 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/778263916/jpgs/default/00000350.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 51 lines, status machine # Lines: 51 recognised, mean confidence 0.90 # Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. # Licence: CC BY 4.0, Leibniz Legible. Machine output: do not ingest it as verified text; keep this provenance with the text. # Wording rule: say "the machine reads it as …", never "Leibniz wrote". # After the first blank line: the recognised lines in reading order, one per line. Degrees of Assend cheir AssenE, al aon phichther vin cheir Faich more than any chine elle; an, that is, the nion os others; choush chere cannot be a more dargerous chins to rels , nor more litiely to missead onc; lince there is much more Falstood alte frrour amonost Men, than Fruch and Hnow- ledoc. And it che Opintens and Persualions ot others, utiom ire snov arid chirte well ot, De alound ot assent, p en have Reason 10 be Hca thens in Fapan, Marcumcldus in Turker. Papilts in spain, Procestants in Fncland, ada Luelalis omuen. But ot chis urons sround ot, AI. sent, lMallhave occasion i speali MOrC aE Lar SC M ay OCHer PLACC. t V EH A P. XV Os che Deorees of Assent. In Boulus s Probabilits, We have laid donn in chie lore- Soins Chapter, a5 they are the foundations on which our Assent is buile; (0 are they allo the mealure Wherebr its several degrees are, or oushe to be regulated: culy we aretotalie notice, that Wvhatever frounds of Probabilies chere may be, ther set operato no Parther on ihC Mind, which scarches aster Pruth, and endleavours to iudse righe, than they appear; at lcast in the tirst fucsment or Scarch that the Mindmaties. consels, in the Opinions Den have, and firmly stick to, in the Worid, their alsent is not alivays trom an actualviem oE the Reasons thar at tirst prevailed wich them: It beins in mans cases almost impossible, and in most very hard, even for thole irhia have very admirable Memories, t0 retain all the Prooss, irhich, upon a due examinarion, made them em brace that side ofthe Duection. It sustices, that cher have once riih care and fairness, examined the matter a5 lar as they could; and that thes have scarched into all the Particulars, that they could imagine to sire ans liglu tothe Ouection; and with the best ol cheir Shill, cast ux elie accoune uxon the rhole Fvidence: and thus havins once tound on Wrhrich lide the Probabilies appenred torhem, alter astull and exaet an en- guirs as thes can malie, chey lay up the conclusion in cheir Nemories, 25 a Fruthther have discovered; and for the luture, they remain Paristied rich the Testimony oF cheir Memories, that chis is the Opinion, that by che eroossthex have once secn ot ic, delerves luc a desree ot rleir ACenE a5 chez attord it. 5. L. LI Is aHt Etac IBC SreatelL pArE OF Men are capable oF doins, in resulatins their Opinions and sudements; unlels a Man Will exaet ot them, citherto retain distinaly in cheir Memories all the Prools concer- nins any probable Truth, and that 100 in the same order, and regular deduction oE Consequences, in Which ther have formerly placed or scen them; Wrhich Cometimes is enous hi to fill à larse Volume uxon one linele Ouection: Or else ther mult require a Mtan, tor every Opinion that le emibraces, every day to cxamine che Proots: boch which, areimportible. Je is unaroictable theretore, that. rhe Memory be relied on in thecase, and thac Men De persuaded of severat Opinions, Whereof the Proofs are not actually in their Thourhes; nas, wrhieh verhapsther are not able actualr to re calI. Without this, the grearest parr ot Men must be cither very Secpcictio, er chanec everus momen, and, victe chemselseo ux 10 1yeo everu 8. F.