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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 37

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  1. HI A P.
  2. Of Ideas in generat, and their Original.
  3. Very Man beins consciois to hinisels, That he chintis, arid
  4. that wrhich his Mind is omiplor d about whilst chintrine.
  5. beins che Ldeas, thatare there, tis past doubt, thatNIen
  6. have in their Minds several Ideas, such as are thole ex
  7. prested by the words, Whiteness, Tlarduess, Sveetness, Thintine. Motion
  8. Man Elephant, armo. Druntenness, and others: It is in the tirst place
  9. then to be enquired, To hecomes by them: Ihnow it is a received Do:
  10. Crine, Fhat Men have native Ideas, and orixinal Characters Ctamped upori
  11. cheir Minds, in cheir very tirst beins. This Opinion P tave at larse exami
  12. ned atreads; and, 1 suppole, What Thare said in the fore going Bool,
  13. will be muchimore casilz admitred, when P have Mewed, Whence theVn
  14. derstandins may set all the Ideas it has, and by wtrat vays and de:
  15. greesther may come into ehe Mind; For irhich l Mall appeal to every
  16. ones own Obtervation and Fxperience.
  17. 6. 2. Let us then suppose the Mind to be, as velay, Wtite Paper, void
  18. OF al Characters, without any Ldeas; FTow comes it to be turnisted:
  19. Whence comes it by that vast store, Wrhich the busie and Boundless Fari-
  20. Cy oFMan has painted on ic, with an almost endless variets: Whence has
  21. it all the materials of Realon and Knowledse: To this lansiver, in one
  22. Word, From Fxperience: In that, all our Rnovledse is tounded; and
  23. trom that it ultimately derires it selF. Our Oblervarion employ d citter
  24. about external, sensible Objects; or about the internal Operarions of our
  25. Minds, perceived and reflected on by our selves, is that, whicb supplies our
  26. Cnderstandine s with al the materials of thinking. Fhele tro are the FOur
  27. cains olRnonledse, trom Whenco al chc Ideas wehare, or can nacurally
  28. tave, do sprins.
  29. 6.3. First, Our Senses, converlant about parricular, sensible Objects, do con-
  30. vey into the Mind, several distinet Perceptions olthinss, accordiris io chole
  31. rarious ways, Wherein those Objects doafteet them: And thus we comeby
  32. thole Ideas, we have oFTellow Whire, LLeat, Cold, Soft, TCard, Bitter, Sueet,
  33. and alLchole Which we call sensible qualiries. This creat Source, Of most
  34. ot the Ldeas re have, dependins wholly uxon our senses, and derived
  35. by themto our Onderstandins. I call S F. NS AY ION.
  36. 6. 4. Sccondly, The other Founrain, From wrhich Experience Furnisheth
  37. the Onderstandins writh Ideas, is the Perception ofche Operations of our
  38. oion Minds within us, as it is emplor d abour the Ideas it has gor; Whiet
  39. Operations, when the Soul comes to reflect on, and consider, do Furnih the
  40. Vnderstandins with anocher sett oF Ideas, Which could noc behad trom
  41. chines vichour; and suctrare, Perception, T bintins. oubrine Believine, Rea-
  42. sonine

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 37. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0053?run=74