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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 732

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  1. Knomledee and Incellection,
  2. BOOKI.
  3. Bould ve not rest satisfied in this, as havins therefore a suffisient Knom
  4. ledee hereos; out vould seek further after a Demonstration of it: sense
  5. reachine only to singulars, but Knomledee t02 niversals. When Fron
  6. the2 niversat Idea oF a Triangle, Wrhich is neither here, nOr therC, nOx
  7. any irhere, wichont our mind, huc yec hach an Intellisible Entity; We
  8. sec aplain necestiey chat ies Three Angles must be F qual to tmo Righe,
  9. then do we knom che Truch oFchis 2niversal Theorem, and not betore:
  10. as also we Ulnderstand, that crery Singular Friangle, (PoFar as ic is
  11. eruC) hachchis Property in ic. Wheretore theKnomledee oF chis and
  12. che like Truchs, is noc derived From singulars, nor dome arrive to
  13. chem in way ol ascent, From singulars to 2 niversals, but on the con
  14. trary havins first Found ehem in the2niversals, we ascermards Del
  15. cendine apply etem to sinculars: (0 thac our Knomledge here i8
  16. noc aster singular Bodies, aud Sccundarily or Derivatively From
  17. them; but in order oF Nature, Besore chem, and Proleptical tothem.
  18. Nom chese Vniversal Conceptions, Come oF which are allo abstrait
  19. (a5 Lile, Sense, Realon, Rnomledse, and the like) many oF chem arc
  20. oF such chings, whose Singulars do not at alI Fall under sense, wrhictu
  21. theretore could never poltiblr be impressed uxon us, trom singular
  22. Bodies by Local Nsotion: and again lome such, as chough cher bc-
  23. lona to Corporeal and sonsible thines; vec, astheir ACcuraCy cannot bC
  24. reachedto by sense, (0 neither did ther ever Exist in thac Matter Ot
  25. ehis lomer orid irhich here encompasseth us, and theretore coule
  26. not be Rampedupon us trom michout; asfor example cheIdcasot a
  27. perfect strait Line, and a Plain supersicies, or ol an exact Triangle
  28. Circle, Sphere, or Cube; no Macerial thins here amons st us beins ter-
  29. minated in (0Strait Lines, but chat even by Microlcopes chere may
  30. Be discorered much Irregularier and Deformity in them; and very
  31. probable it is, thacthere are no Perfectly strait Lines, no Tuch Tri
  32. aneles, Cireles, Spheres, Or Cubes, as ansver totheFxactnels oF Oux
  33. Conceptions, in any part oF the irhole Material Elniverse, nOr never
  34. will bC. Nocwichstandins hich, they are nOc absolute Non-Enti-
  35. ties, since e can Demonstrate chines concernins chem, and thoust
  36. cher never ere nor will De, vet arethey Possible to Exilt, Cince no-
  37. Htiins ean Be Conceived, but it cither _s, Ox elle is Possibte to bC. ThC
  38. Humane Mind chertore hath a Pomer OF Gramins Edeas aud Concepsi
  39. ons, nOt ouly OF Wrhat ActualIy IS, buc al(o oF chinss irhich never
  40. vere, nor pertiaps will be, cher beins ouly Possible tobe. But whem
  41. Trom our Conceptions, re conclude of lome chines, thac though they
  42. are NOL, Vet chey are Postible tobe; Since nochins chatIS nOE, Can bC
  43. Possible to be, uness there be lomethine Actually in Being, wrhich hach
  44. Custicient Pomer to produce it; we do Implicicely suppose, thC FX.
  45. istence oF a Cod or omnipotent Beine thereby, which can makee Whac.
  46. Toever is Conceivable, thoughit ret benOt, to Exist; and therelore
  47. Macerial Triangles, Cireles, Spheres, Cubes, Mathematically F xact.
  48. THCRCTIE OF what we have hicherto said is chis, chac Since Singi
  49. lar Bodies, are nocthe only Objects oF our Mind and cositation.
  50. havins also 2 niversal and abstract ideas, oF che Intellisible Natures O
  51. Essences oE chingo; (some oE rhiet are such; rhose singulars do non
  52. Inc
  53. e Minc
  54. on
  55. alT
  56. Rnon
  57. rearum
  58. etre
  59. Roverine
  60. endenti
  61. MurC, B

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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 732. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0752?run=74