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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 69

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  1. iscerr.
  2. ec
  3. Ton; Whereby il apPCarS, FhaE it ConSils in Comethine, that is nOL per
  4. fectli contorrable to them.
  5. 5. 3. Foche well distinguisinz our Ldeas, it chieAr contribures, that
  6. ther be clear and determinate: And When they are l0, it will not breed
  7. aur confusion or mistale aboui them, though the Senses thould (a5 Tome.
  8. times chey do) conver them from ehie same Object differently, on dif-
  9. ferent occasions, and sosecm to err. For thoush a Man in a Fever, Mould
  10. From Sugar have a bierer taste, wrhieh at another time rould produce a
  11. TIrcet one; vet the Ldea oF Bieter in that Man SMind, Would be as clear
  12. and distinct trom the Ldea OF Sireet, as it he had tasted ontr GalI. Nor
  13. doeS IE MAIEO aNY MOrE CONFSIOM BOTWCCN FHE tWO Ideas OF SirCet and
  14. Bitter, that the same sOre OF Body produces at one rime onc, and at
  15. anorter time another Ldea, by thecalte, than it malces a contusion in the
  16. tvo Ideas oF Whire and Sireet, or White and Rounel, that the lame piece
  17. OF Sugar produces ehem both in the Mind at the laime time. And che
  18. Ideas of Oranse colourand Azure, that are produced in the Mind By the
  19. Pame parcel ot the insusion oF Zignum Nephriticum, are no lels dictinct
  20. Ideas, than thole ol the lame C olours, talsen trom two very difterent
  21. Bodies.
  22. 6. 4. The C’DMPARTNC chem orie wich anocher, in respect oF
  23. Fxtent, Degrees, Time, Place, or ans other circumstances, is anocher
  24. operation ot theMind about its Ldeas, and is chat upon wrhicli depends al
  25. that larse tribe ot Ideas, comprehended under Relation; Wtich of hou
  26. vastan extent it is, P Mallhare occasion to consuer hereatter.
  27. 6. 5. FTor Par Brutes parratce in this faculer, is not ealie to determine;
  28. limagine ther have it not in ans great desree: For thouehi cher proba-
  29. bly have several Ideas distina enoug, ver ic scems to me ro be the Pre-
  30. rogntire oF Hlumane Understandins, irhen it has sufficieney distingui-
  31. Med any Ideas, (0 as to perceirethem tobepertectr different, and locon-
  32. sequentr erro, to cast about and consider in What circumstances ther are
  33. capable to be compared. And FherCtOrE, PthinkE, Beasts compare HOF
  34. their Ideas, Farther ehian lome sensible Circumstances annexed to theOF
  35. jects themselres. The other porver of Comparins, Which may De obler.
  36. ved inMen, belongiriss to general Ideas, and uletul only to abstract RCa
  37. Tonings, remar probabls conjecture Bealts have not.
  38. 5. 6. Thenext Operation Wre ay observe inthe Mind about its Ideas,
  39. is COMPOSTT FON; Whreroby it purs together several of those simple
  40. ones it has receired trom Senlarion and Reflection, and combines them
  41. into complex ones. Under this of Compolition, may De rection d allo chat
  42. OF F N L AROTNO; Wherein thoush the Compolitiondoes noc l0 muet
  43. appear, a5 in more complex ones, vet it is nevertheless a puttine several
  44. Ideas rogether, choughos the lamme kind. Thus by adding several Vnites
  45. rogecher, We makce the Ldea oF a dozen; and puttins together the re-
  46. Peated Ideas oF several Perches, We Frame that of a Furlons.
  47. 5. 7. TA EIs al(O, ISuppOse, Brutes Come Far MONE OF MTaN. FOr thousII
  48. ther take in, and retain cogether several Combinations of simple Ideas,
  49. as postibls che Strape, Smell, and Voice oF his Ntaster, matre up a Com-
  50. plex Idea a Dos has oFhim, or rather are (0 mans distinet Marles erhere.
  51. Dy heknows him; vet, Ido not chinke ther do ot themselres ever com-
  52. pound them, and mate complex Ideas: And perhaps even irhere e
  53. chinlether have complex Ideas, ris only one simple one chat directs
  54. ehem in theknom ledse of severat thingo, irhich possibly cher distinguit
  55. less by cheir Sighe, chan we imagine. For Phave been crecibly intomed,
  56. that a Biteh willnurse, play wichu and be lond oyouns FOxes, as muct

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 69. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0085?run=74