An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 61

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12. Of Perception.
13. 8. T. D Erception, as it is the tirst Paculer oF che Mind, exercilec about
14. our Ideas; Poic is the frst and simplest. Idea e have From Re-
15. Rection, and is by some called Thintcins in general. Thoush Thinkins.
16. in the proprietr ot the Fneliss LOngue, Signites that POrE OF operation
17. oFthe Mlind about its Ideas, Wherein ehe Mind is activo; Where it ith
18. Pome degree ol voluntary actention, considers any thing. For in bare
19. naked Perception, the Mind is, For the most part, only paltive; andwhat
20. it perceires, it cannor avoid perceivins.
21. 5. 2. Whac Perception is, erery one ill Hnow Becter, by reflecting on
22. ertrat hedoes himsels, Wrhen he sces, hcars, scels, 65c. Or thinks, than by
23. aur discourse ofmine. Whoerer reflects ori irhat passes in himlels in his
24. omnMinc, cannot miss it: Andis he does not restect, all the rords in che
25. Norid, cannoc malce him have any notion ot it.
26. 6. 3. This is certain, Thac whaterer alterations are made in the Body,
27. isthey reach not theMind; Whaterer imprections are made on the out-
28. vard pares, il thes arenor calien notice of within, there is no l’erception.
29. Fire may burn oux Bodies, with no ocher effect than it docs a Billet, un-
30. less the morion be continued to rhe Brain; and there the sense ot FICat,
31. or Idea oF Pain, be produced in che Mind, rheren consils actual Per-
32. ception.
33. 6. 4. FTor olten may a Man observe in himsels, that whilst his Mind i5
34. intently employ d in the contemplation of fome Objects; and curiousr
35. surverino lome Pdeas thatarethere, it tatces no notice of impressions, ot
36. Coundino Bodies, Wrhich are broueht in thouoh the same alteration be
37. made upon the Orsan ol FPcaring, that ules to be for the producino the
38. Tdea ot a Sound: A sufficient impulse chere maz be on the Oroan: ByF
39. it not reaching the observation ot the Mind, there Follors no perception:
40. Andchouoh the morion that ules to produce the sdea oF Sound, be made
41. in the Far, vet no sound is heard. Want ol Sensation in this case, is not
42. chroueh any delect inthe Organ, or that his Pars are lels affected than ax
43. Other times, When he does hear: but thac wtich ules to produce the
44. Idea, thouch conrered in by the ulual Organ, not beins tatten notice of
45. in the Onderstanding, there Follons no Sensation. S0 chat where-ever
46. thereis Senle, or Perception, there some Ideais actually produced, and pre-
47. sent in the cnderstandine.
48. 6. 5. Fherelore I doube noc but Children, DY the exereise ot cheir Sen-
49. ses about Objects, that affect them in the Womb, receive some feu Ideas
50. belore cher are born, as the unavoidable effects; cittier of thie Bodies that
51. environ them, or elle oE thole Wants or Dileases ther sulter; amonest
52. Wtrict. (iF one mar conjecture concernins thinos not verr capable ot ex.
53. amination) Pchinke, the Ideas oF Flunger and Waemei are tiro: Wrhich
54. Probabls are lome ofthe trAt chac Children have, and trhichthey scaree
55. everpart with again.
56. 5. 6. But though it berealonable to imasine, thac Chuldren receIVE
57. Tome Faeas belore ther come into the Worid, vet thele simple Ideas are
58. far from thole innate Principles, Wrhich lome contend for, and ve above
59. have rejected. These here mentionec, beins che etteasol Sensation, are
60. onts

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 61. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0077?run=74