A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 236
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The machine reads it as
- AVindication of
- stance is one oF the frst; becaule we Aind
- that e can have no true Conceptions ot
- any Modesor Accidents (no marrer Which)
- but we must conceire a Substratum, or Sub.
- jeet Wherein cherare. Since it is a Repus
- naner eo our tirst Conceptions ot thunes
- that Modes or Accidents Mould Liibsist By
- themselves, and cheretore the Rationat Idea
- eF Substance is one ofthe Frst, and most na-
- tural Ideas in our minds.
- BuE we are RiMI FoId, That our Onder-
- standinque can have no other Ideas, but ei
- ther from Sensation or Reftection. And That-
- herein chiesty lies the Excellency of man-
- kind above Brutes, that these cannot ab-
- stract, and intarze their Ideas as men do-
- Bur ho comesthe generat Ideaot Sub-
- stance, to be tramed in our Minds: 15
- ehis by Abstractine aud intarginq simple
- Ideas: NO, but it is By a Complication of
- many simple Ideas rocether: because not
- E.2. ch. 23. macimine hou these simple Ideas ean sub-
- sist by themselves, we accustom our sel ves to
- suppose some Subltratum wherein ther do
- subsist, and from whichther do result, wohich
- therefore ve calt Substance. And is this
- all indced, that is to be laid For the De-
- ins ot substance, that ve accustom our selves
- +0 suppose a Substratum: IS thac Custom
- Groundedupon erue Reason ornot: IFnOL,
- the
- C.. 3.. CB. +.
- sect. 5.
- selt. 1.
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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 236. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/727097563:0308?run=74