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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 49

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  1. Idea of Soliditi.
  2. may approach one another, ithout touchine or displacins any solic
  3. chino, till cheir Superticies come to meet; Wvhereby, Tthink, we have
  4. tho clear Idea Ol Space without soliditr. For (not 1050(0 tar as aninihiila-
  5. tion ot any particular BOdY) Pasli, WVhether a Plan cannothavo che Idea
  6. Otthe motion ol one linele Body alone, rithout anr other succcedins
  7. immediarelr into ies Place: Wrhich, I chink, tis erident he Can; thC
  8. Idea oFMocion in one Bodr, no more includino the idea ot Motion in q-
  9. nother, than the Idea oF a square Figure in one Body includes
  10. the idea ot a square Pisure in anocher. I do not ask, Whether
  11. Bodies do P0 exist, that the motion of orie Body cannor reallr bc
  12. Wichout the morion ol another: To derermine this cither way, is to beo
  13. the uection Por or asains a Vacuum. But my Oueltion is, Whether
  14. one cannochare the Idea ol one Body moved, hilst ochers are at rest:
  15. and I chintc. this no one will denr: IF (0, then the Place it delerted,
  16. sires us the Idea oF pure Space Without Soliditr, Whereinto another Body
  17. mas enter, ithout cither Relistance or Protrusion of any thing. When
  18. the Suelcer in a Pump is drarrn, the space it Alled in the Fube is certain-
  19. lx the lamme, Wrhether any other bodr follons the motion ofthe Sucter or
  20. nO; nor does it imply a contradiction, That upon the motion oloneB0.
  21. dr, another chat is ontr contiguous to it, Mould not tollo it. Thene-
  22. cessitr oF such a motion, is built onty on the Supposition, Thac thie Worid
  23. is Full; buc not on the distinet Ideas oF Space and Soliditr, irhich are a5
  24. different, as Relistance and not Relictonce, Protrusion and nor Protrusion:
  25. And that Men have Ideas ol Space, Without Body, their very Disputes a
  26. bout a Vacuum plainly demonstrate, asis eved in another Placc.
  27. 6. 4. Solidiry is hrereby also differenced from FTardness, in that Solidi-
  28. tr consilts in repletion, and so an ulter Fxclusion ot ocher Bodies out of
  29. the space it possesses: BuF FPardness, in a tirm Cohesion oF, the parts OF
  30. Matter, makins up masses of a sensiblo bulk; (0 that the whole docs not
  31. casils chanse its Fisure. And indced, IPard and Solt, are, as apprehended
  32. by us, ouls relatire Terms, eo the Constitutions of our Bodies; that beins
  33. oeneralIY Calld hard by us, ertich ill put us to Pain, (ooner than chanse
  34. Figure by the presture ot ans part of our Bodies; and that on the contra-
  35. ry, TolE, Wrhich chanses the Siruation of its parts upon an calie and un.
  36. Paintul touch.
  37. But chis Difficuley OF changins the Situation oF the sensible parts a-
  38. monost chemselves, or olthe Fisure of the whole; sires no more Solidi.
  39. ey tothe hardest Body in the Wortd, than to the (otrest; nor is an Ada-
  40. mant one jot more solid than Water. For though thc to AaF Sides OF
  41. tiro pieces ot Marble, ill more calils approach cach other, betreen
  42. Whieh there is nothins but Water or Air, than if there De an Adamant
  43. betreen them: vet it isnot, chat elie parts of the Adamant are more solid
  44. than those oF Water, or resist more; but becaule the parts of Water, beino
  45. more casils separable From each octer, ther illby à sidemorion be more
  46. calilr remored, and sire as to the approach ot the tro picces oF Mar-
  47. ble: But if ther couldbe Kept trom makins Place, by that lide:motion,
  48. eher ould eternally hinder the approach ot these tiro picces ot Marole,
  49. as much as the Diamond; and trrould be as impostible by any force, t0
  50. surmount their Relistance, asto surmounethe Relistance of the parts oF a
  51. Diamond. The soltest Body in the Worid will as invincibly resist the
  52. comins together ofany tro ocher Bodies, is it benot purout ol the may.
  53. Dut remain betrreen them, as the hardest that can be found or imaxined.
  54. HC that Malltll a vicldins sole Body Well wich Air or Water, will quicklr
  55. find its Resistance: And he chat chins, thac nothins but Bodies, thar are
  56. Marct

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 49. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0065?run=74