An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 48
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- amonsst whichu Pchink, L’la Wel aecoun Solict); mieh therctore
- Mallereat oF in FhC neXF Chapter.
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- ) Solidity.
- 5. F.
- FTE Idea OF Solidity, e receire by our Fouch; and it ariles
- trom theResistance we find in Body, to theentrance oF any o.
- cher Body into the Place it possesses, till it has lete it. Therc is no Idea
- Wrhich ve receiremore constanty from Senlation, than. Soliditr. Whe-
- elier e more, or rest, in Wrhat Pocture loerer we arc, tre alvarsfcel lome-
- thins under us, that suppors us, and hinders our farther sinkrins dorrn.
- ards; and the Bodies re daily handle, makre us perceire chac rhilst
- ther remain becrcen them, ther do by an insurmountable Force, hinder
- the axproach of the parts ot our Flands thar press them. That erhich
- thus hinders the approachi of trro Bodies, wrtien ther are morino one co-
- wardsanorher, PCall Solidity. L Will noc dispute, Whether this accepta-
- tion ofthe WVord solid be nearer to its Orisinal Signitication, chan Fhat
- erhrich Mathematicians usc it in: I fustices, chac I chinse, the common
- Norion oF Solidity will alloir, il noc justitie, chis ule of it; but il any one
- thintc it better to call. it Impenetrability, he has my Consent. Only I
- hrare choust che Term Solidiry, the more prover to exprels this Ideas
- not orls because olits vulgar ule in that sense; but also, because it car.
- ries Comethins more of politire in it, than impenetrability, Which is nega-
- tire; andis, perhaps, more a consequence ot solidicy, than Solidiey it
- SelE. Fhis oFall other, seems the Ldea most intimately connected with,
- arid essential to Body, (o as no irhere else to be found or imasin d, DuE
- onr in matter; Wrhich thouch our Senles takenonotice ot, but in masses
- OFmatter ota buIk, sufficient to cause a Sensation in us: V et theMind;
- havirs once gotthis Idea trom luch grossersensible Bodies, traces it Farther
- and considers it as evell as Figure, in theminutest P’article ot matter, that
- con exist, and fnds it inseparabls inherent in Body, Where erer, orhorre.
- ver moditied.
- 5. 2. THIS IS EIIC Laed DCNO WBOdY, erherehy We conceire it +0 fll
- space. The Idea oF which fillins oF space, is, Fhat erhere e imagine any
- space cakten up by a solid Substance, ire coriceire it (0 to Posels it, that it
- excludes al ottier solid Substances; and, will For ever hinder atiy twoo.
- cher Bodies, thatmore torards one another in a strait Linc, trom comine
- totouch onc anoctier, unless it remore trom betrrcen them in a Line,
- noc parallel ro thatches move in. This Idea oE it, che Bodies Wve ordi
- narily handle sufficiently Furnisti us ith.
- 8. 3. This Reliltance, Wrhereby it kecps other Bodies out of the space
- IE pOsseTTCS, IS (O GrCAE, THaE nO TOrCC, HO GreAE IOCVer, CAM LUROUNE IE.
- AIIthe Bodies inthe Worid, prestins a drop of Water on aIl sides, vill
- never De ableto overcome ehe Relultance it vill matce, as Tott a5 It i5,
- totheir approachins onc anocher, till it be remored out ot their waz:
- Wrhereby our ldeaof Solidity is distineui shed Boch from pure space, Whien
- is capable neither OF Resictance nor Morion, and the ordinary Idea OE
- harduess. FOF a Man may Conccire iro BOdies aE a dillance, (0 as 1hc
- May
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 48. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0064?run=74