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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 4

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  1. Noinnate Principles in the Minca
  2. hre will find in chefollomins Treatise. It beins that Term, Wrhich, Pthinli,
  3. serres best to stand For Whatloerer is the Object of the Onderstandins
  4. erhen a Nan thins, Thare used it to express Wvhaterer is meane DY Phan-
  5. tasm, Notion, Species, Or Whatever it is, ivhich the Mind can be employ d
  6. about in thinkins; and P could nocavoid frequently usins it.
  7. Tprelume it ill be calily granted me, that there are luch Ldeas in HlenS
  8. Minds; every onc is conseious of them in himselE, and a Man SWords and
  9. Acions will latistie him, that they arc in orhers.
  10. Our Airst. Enguiri chen Mall De how ther come into the Mind.
  11. II
  12. BOOKI
  13. Noinnate Principles in the Mind.
  14. B. T. B Tis an establisted Opinion amonsst Tome Nen, Fhat there are in
  15. B thenderstandins certain innate Principles; lome primary No-
  16. tions, KoVas cirolat, Characters, as ic vere samped upon the Mind oF
  17. Nan, irhich the Soul receires in irs very Crst Being; and brings intothe
  18. Worid with ic. It ould be sufficient to convince unprejudiced Readers
  19. OFthe Falsenes oFthis Supposition, if P Bould only Ther (as P hope I MaIL
  20. in chefollorins Parrs oF chis Discourse) hor Men, barelr by thevse ot
  21. thieir nacural Faculties, mas attain to all the Rnom ledse thes have, ith.
  22. out the help ot any innate imprestions; and mas errive at Certaints,
  23. rithour any such Original Notionsor Principles. For Limagine any one
  24. Will casils grant, That it vould be impertinent to suppole the Idéâs ot
  25. Colours innate in a Creature, torhom Crod hath siven Sight, and a Pou-
  26. er to receire them by the Fres From external Objects: and no lels urirea.
  27. Ponable rould it beto actribute several Truchsto che Imprecsions of Nature
  28. and innate Characters, When emar obserre in our selres Faculties, fc
  29. to attain as easie and certain Rnoledse ot them, as il they vere Origi-
  30. nally imprinted on the Mind.
  31. But because a Man is noc permitted without Censure to follo his omn
  32. Thouchus in thesearch of Truth, Whenther lead him ever (o titrlo out of
  33. the common Road: PMall set doun the Reasons, that made me donbe ot
  34. the Fruch of that Opinion, as an Fxcuse For my Mistake, if IBC in one.
  35. Wrhich I leave to beconsider d by chose, who wich me dispole chemselves
  36. to embrace Truth, Where-cverthey find it.
  37. 5. 2. There is nothins more commonty calren for granted, than tMaF
  38. there are certain Principles Doch Speculative and Practical (For they spcale
  39. OF Both) universally agreed upon by all Manlind: Wrhrich cheretore they
  40. argue, must needs be the constant Impressions, Wtrich ehe Souls oF Nen
  41. receive in their first Beines, and Which they bring into the Worid with
  42. them, as necellarily and really as chey do any oftheir inherent Paculties.
  43. 5. 3. This Argument, dramn trom Dniversal Consent, has this Misfor-
  44. tune in ic, Thac il it ivere true in matter ot Fact, that there ivere certain
  45. Truchs, Wherein aII Mankcind agreed, it vould not prove them innate, it
  46. there can be anz ocher may Mevn hou Nen may cometo that Wniversal
  47. Aereement in chethines ther doconsent insirhich I presume may bedones
  48. 5. 4. But, trhich is vorse, this Argument ot universal Consent, whict
  49. id macte ule ot1o prore innale Principtes, lcems 0 me a Bemonctracion
  50. EhaE

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 4. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0020?run=74