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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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Division of the Sciences
none os them, besides it selF, present to thoOnderstanding, tis necessary
chat lomethins elle, as a Sign or Reprelentation ol the chins it conliders,
Mould be prelent to it: And chese are Ideas. And becaule the Ideas ot
oncMan SMind cannor immediatelr be laid open eo the riew ot anortier;
nor bechemselres laid up any erhere, but in cheMemorr, Which is aptto
let them 50 and lose them: Therelore to comimunicate our Ideas one to
another, as ellas record them for our omnuse, signs ot our Ideas are
allo necestarr. Those erhich Men have Found most convenient, and
theretore generally makie use oF, are articulate Sounds. The Considera:
tion then oF Ideas and Words, as the sreat Instruments ol Hnomledge,
makce no despicable part ol their Contemplation, wtio vould take a vier
Ot humane Rnowledoe in thewhole Extent ot it. And, pertraps, il they
eere distinctly wreishied, and duls considered, they rould attordus ano.
cher Cort oF Losich and Critick, than wrhat ve have been hitherto ac:
quainted with.
8. 5. This seems to me the sirst and most general, as well as natural divi-
sion ot the Objects ot our Vnderstanding. For lince a Man can employ
his Thoughes about nothins, bur cirher the Contemplation of Thinos
themselres Tor the discoverr oF Truth; Or about the Things in his omn
Corver, which are his oun actions, For the Atrainment ot his ovn Encs.
Or the Signs theMind matres ulc oF, both in the one and the ottier, and
cherioht orderins ofthemfor its clearer Information. All which chree,
2iz. Thinos as they are in themselres Hnorrable; Actions as ther depend
on us, in order totappiness; and cherishc ulc of Sisns in order to RnO-
ledoe, beinz roro caeloditterent, they lecmed to me tobe the three preat
Provinces ot cheincellectual Worta, uhouy leparate and distinet one
trom another.
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