An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 75
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- Simple Modes ofS
- C II A P.
- XIII.
- Of simple Modes; and first, of the simple Modes of Space.
- S. 2.
- HToush in che Poresoitrs part, Thave often tmetitioned simple
- Ideas, Which are truly the MaterialS oF aIl our Rhomledoe:
- vet having created oE them there, rather in the az that ther come in-
- cothe Mlind, than as distinguistred trom others more corripounded, it
- rill noc be, pertraps, amils to tatre a view ol some of them acain under
- this Consideration, and examine chose different Modifications of the same
- Idea; Wrtich ehre Mind cicher fnds in chings existins, or is able eo malse
- richin ic selE, Wwithout the help ot ans extrinsical Object, or ans foreign
- Susgection.
- Thole Modifications of any one simple Idea (ertrich as has Been Caic,
- calt simple Modes) are as perlectly different and distinst Ideas in FhC
- Mind, as those ofthe greatest distance or contrarietr. For the Idea OF
- Tvo i5 as distinct from Three, as Blueness From Teat, Or citler oF them
- trom any Nurriber; and ret ches are made up only olchat limple Idea ot
- an Onite repeated; and thele Repetirions joined together, malie thole
- distinct simple Modes, Ot a Dozen, a Gross, a Million.
- 5. 2. LMall besin with the simple Idea of Space. Thave Mewed above.
- c. 4. that we pet che Idea oF Space, boch by our Siglt, and Fouch; Wwhich,
- Ichinke, is Co evidene, chat it vould be as necdlels, tO gO tO prOVO, LMaE
- Men perceire by cheir Sighe, a distance berween Bodies ot different Co-
- IOUrS, OF BCTWCen thC PartS OF FHC Pame BOdY; as That ther sec ColourS
- themselves: Nor is it lels obrious, that they can do so in the DarkBY
- Feclins and Fouch.
- 6. 3. This Space considered barely in leneth Betreen any rvo Beines.
- Without consideriris auy chine esse vetween them, is called distance: It
- considered in Lensch. Breadth, and Thickness, P chink, it may be called
- Capacier: When considered between the extremities of Matrer, Wrhict
- Allsthe Capacitr oF Space wich Comechins solic, tansible, and movable.
- it is properiy called Extension. And Co Fxtention is an Idea belonsine eo
- Body orir; but Space may, a5 is evident, De considlered ithout it. AF
- least, Pchins ic most incellisible, and che best ras ro avoid Consulion, il
- re ule the Word Extension tor an Afection oF Matter, or the distance of
- the Extremities oF particular solid Bodies; atd Space in the more gene-
- ral Signification for distance, with or without solid Macter Posses-
- FIng iC.
- 6. 4. Fach disserent distance is a ditterent Moditication oF Space, and each
- Idea of any different distance, or Space,is a simple Mode of this Idea. Hen
- haring by accustomine themselves to stated lengths of Space, Whichther
- ule for meaturine oF other dictances, as a Foot, a Tard, or a Farhom, a
- Learue, or Diametre of the Farth, madle thole Ideas Familiar to their
- Thoushes, can in their Minds repeat them as otten 2s they will, rith.
- out mixing or joining eo them the Ldea oF Body, or any thinq elle; and
- frame to themselres the Ideas oF lons. square, or cubicti, teet, Lards,
- Ox Fathoms, here amongst the Bodies oF the Vniverse, or elle berond the
- utmost Bounds of all Bodies; and by addins these sill One LO anOFMer
- enlarse their Idea oF Space as much as thez please. This Pover oF re-
- peatins, or doublins any Ldea we hare ot any diltance, aud addivs ic to
- Et
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 75. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0091?run=74