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# Title: A Defence Of The Essay Of Human Understanding, Written by Mr. Lock (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 3; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 3)
# Folio 29, page id 797937889:0041
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Norions, and noc his irtiom he scemsto dispure
Wich. And ris impossible t0 read MI. L0ckS
Fllay rich the least Actention, and not knon
that he doesnot ule chose threc Terms in one
and the lame significarion; ihich is the Re-
martrer had consider d, he cond not have (0
uch mistaken NII. Lock, or Found Tuch Dissi-
culcies in his Dilcourse. IFMr. Lock had under-
Atood by the sont, Man and Person che lame
thino, he won d never have mado such a Oue-
Aion, Whecher the sont chintrins apare, Whrae
ihc Man is not at aIl conseoins OF, IVerC nOC a
distinct Per(on, lrom the Man; Wrhich nou d be
just ehe same thing as to ask, Whether the SouI
chinkins apare, wrhat che soul is nor conscious
Ot, be noc a distinet Soul Fiom the Soul: BUE
understandine by Person as he does Self. Con (ei-
onsness, and by Man che Soul and Body united
he may question hecher ehe same Sont, the
same permanent Substance, chirkine apart from
the Body; in Connd Slecp, Wrhac che walcine Man
is not conscious oF, irhecher that incommunica
ble Conscionsness does not make the Sont, and ehc
an consistinq oF Body and Soul, truo distinct
Pertons; Personal Identity, consiktins in the
Came Conscionsness and noc in che tame Substance,
For Whaterer Substance there is, Withont Con-
Scionlness chere isn Person; Conscionsness there-
Fore and not substance, meline a Person, ine
Tme Consciousness ust inalce the Pame Per
Ton, Wrhecher in che lamse, or in differentSuBstan-
ces; and no Farther than chelame conscious-
nels extends, can there be the lame Perlon-
but whereerer there istro distinct incommuni-
cable Conscionsnesses, there is euro distivet Per-
sons, tho in che tame Suostance.
Dut Farther, nOL OnIy NII. LockS OneRion
mas be made. Suxxolins eha soul a distinet per-
manen Sustance, buc he cou d not malie it uvon
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