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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 71

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  1. scernin
  2. Dut ic is only in particular Pdeas, just as ther receir dthem tromtheir Senles
  3. Therare the best of them tied up richin thole narrom bounds, and hare
  4. not (a5 I chink) the Paculcy to enlarse them by any bind ol abstra
  5. ction.
  6. 6. T2. FTOW Par Idiors are Concerned in the want: or ealinels ol any
  7. Or all of the foresoins taculties, an exaet obserration ot thoir leveral
  8. Wars ot talterine, ould no doubr dilcover. For thole lio citherpei-
  9. ceire but dullr; or retainthie Ideas that come into their Minas, Dursill.
  10. Wrho cannot readily excire or compound them, will have little macter to
  11. chinte on. Those irho cannor dictinsuish, compare, and abAract, rould
  12. hardly be able co understand, and make usc ot Languase, or judze, ox
  13. realon eo any tolerable deoree; bur orly a litele, and impertecty, about
  14. thines prelent, and very Familiar ro their Seriles. And indeed, anr ol ele foren
  15. mentioned Faculties, il antine, or out otorder, produce suitable desecto
  16. in BIens Onderstandinos and Rnowledoe.
  17. 5. 23. Infine, The delect in Naturals, sCemS tO proceCd FrOt ane ot
  18. quieknels, actirier, and motion, in the intellectual Paculties, Whereby
  19. cher are deprired of Reason: Whereas mad Men, on the ocher Cidoz lecim
  20. toluster by the ocher Lxtream. For ther do notappear to me rohare lost
  21. the Faculer of Reasonins: but havins joined rogether lome Taeasiverr
  22. eronolr, ther mistate them for Fructs; and ther err as Men dos thae
  23. arguerishit trom vrons Principles. For by cheviolence oF chicir Imagi
  24. nations, havins cakcen their Pansies for Realities, ther make ripht dedu
  25. ction Fromthem. Thus ou Mall find a distracted Nan phanszine him
  26. selFa Ring, irith a riglu inference, reguires luitable Atcendance, Respect,
  27. and Obectience: Orhers trho trave thouohe themselres made ot glals
  28. have used che caution necestars to preserve luchbrietle Bodico. Hlence it
  29. COmeS tO PaSS, that aMan, Who is venz lober, and oF a right Vnderstan-
  30. dins in all other things, may in one particular, be as trancicle as anz in
  31. Bealam; il cither by anx sudden very Arone imprection, or lono tixins
  32. his Faney uxon one sort of Thoustus, incoherent Ideas havo been ce-
  33. mented cogether (o porvertully, as to remain united. But there are de
  34. orces oFMadness, as oF FOIIY; the disorderls jumblins Ldeas WogotHer, is
  35. in somemore, and some lels. In More, Herein seems to lie the ditterence
  36. vetween Idtiors and mad Mon, That maci Men pur irong Ideas tope
  37. cher, and (o make errons Propolitions, bur argue and realon ristie from
  38. them: Buc Idiors matce vers ser or no Provoliions, and reason scarce
  39. aE aII.
  40. 6. T4. These, L thintcare the Arst Faculties and Opcrations oftheMind,
  41. Wvhich it akces ule ot in understandino; Which thouoh ther are exerciled
  42. about all ies Ideas in general; zet the instances, l have hitherto siven,
  43. have been chiestr in simple Ideas; and I have subjoined the explication
  44. OF these Faculties olthe Mind, to that ot simple Ideas, betore Pcome t0
  45. irhat Lhave co lay, concernins complex ones, for these follomins Rea.
  46. TOnS:
  47. First. Becaule several oP these Faculties beins exerciled at Arst princi
  48. Pally about simple Ideas, We mishe, by sollorrine Nature in its ordina-
  49. ry method, trace and dilcorer ehem in cheir rise, proerels, and gradual
  50. IPPOVCMENES.
  51. Secondy. Becaule obterrino the Faculties oF our Mind, hou they ope-
  52. rate about simple Ldeas, wrhrich are usvally in most Mens Minds, muct
  53. more clear, precise, and distinet, than complex ones, ne may the better
  54. examine and leaen hor the Mind abstracts, denominates, compares, and
  55. exerciles its other Opcrations, abour thole whieh are complex, Whereim
  56. ve are muctimore liable to mistale.
  57. Thiraly

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 71. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0087?run=74