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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 73

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  1. u
  2. is
  3. et
  4. Ia
  5. c
  6. IM
  7. M,
  8. ME
  9. implex Ic
  10. HI A P.
  11. Al.
  12. Of Complex Ideas.
  13. Xdve hicherto considered chole Ldeas, in che receptiom
  14. Wwhercot, theMind is only passive, Wrhich are thole simple
  15. ones receired trom sensation and Reflection belorementioned, Whereot
  16. the Mind cannor make any one to it selF, nor have any Idea Which docs
  17. noc irholy consist otthem. But as these simple Ideas are observed to
  18. exist in several Combinations united togecher; (0 ihe Minc has a POIEF
  19. 1o consider several of them united together, as onc Idea; and chat noc only
  20. as ther are united in external Objects, but as it self hasjoined them. Ideas
  21. thus madle up oF several simple ones put tosether, I call Complex; suchr a5
  22. dre Beauty, Gratitude, a Man, an Army, the2niverse; Whichi though com-
  23. plicated oE various simple Ideas, er complex Ldeas, macle ux ot simple ones,
  24. yet are, when the Mind pleases, considered each by it sell, a5 one eneire
  25. chins, and signitied by one namc.
  26. 6. 2. In this saculty of repeatine and joinine tosether ils Ideas, the
  27. Mind has ereat pover in varvins and mulciplrins the Objects oF its
  28. Thourhes, infinicelr bezond irhat sensation or Reftection Furnibhied it
  29. ith: But all chis still confined to thole simple Ideas, wtich it received
  30. trom chole tro Sources, and which are the ultimate MaterialS. OF all itS
  31. Compolitions. For these, chey are all trom chines chemselves; and the
  32. Mind can have nomore, nor other simple Ideas, than as they are suxee.
  33. Aed tO it. IE ean have no other Ideas oF sensible Oualities, Fhan WHaE
  34. cone trom withoutby the senles; nor anr Ldeas of other kind of Opcra-
  35. tions of athintcins substance, thanerhat ic tinds in it selt: but Wrhen it has
  36. once sot thole simple Ldeas, it is not contined barely to Obserration, and
  37. Wrhat ofters it sel(trom mithout; it can, by iIS OWn DOVer, put tosether
  38. those Ldeas it has, and mate neu complex ones, whiel it never receired
  39. Co united.
  40. 5. 3. Complex Ideas, horever compounded and decompouvded, houpH
  41. their number be infinire, and the variety endlels, Wherewich ther HIl, and
  42. and encercain che Thoustus oCMem; yer, Ichirite, chex mas be altreduced
  43. under these chree Heacs:
  44. T. Modes.
  45. 2. Substances.
  46. 3. Relations.
  47. d. T.
  48. Pouncec Corcu er M ce ele suppolition et lubliltins by chemlelves,
  49. buc are considered as Dependences on, or Afections ot Substances; luch
  50. are the Ldeas Signitied by the words Triangle, Gratitude, Murther, (5c.
  51. and il in ehis P usethe word Mode, in Comerhat a difterene senle trom
  52. its ordinary significarion, Ibes pardon; it beins unavoidable in Dilcour-
  53. ses, differine trom the ordinary received Notions, cither to malce ne
  54. Words; or to ule old Words in Comenhat a ner signification; which in
  55. our present case, is perhaps the more tolerable ot thE LWO.
  56. S. g. First, Modes L call such complex Ideas, Which honever com.

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 73. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0089?run=74