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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 76

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  1. Simple Mlodes of Space.
  2. the former as osten as re ill, ithout being erer able to come to any
  3. Rop or Stint, letus enlarse it as much as ire will, is that ertich sives us
  4. the idea ot Immensitr.
  5. 5. 5. There is another Modisication oF this Idea oF Space, erhich is no-
  6. thins but the Relation oF the Parts ofthe Fermination ol Capacier, or
  7. Extension amonsst themselves. This the Touch discovers in sen siblc. B0.
  8. dies, Whose Fixtremities coms ithin our react; and ehe Fire Falres Both
  9. From Bodies and Colours, irhose Boundaries are rithin its vier: Where
  10. observing how the Extremities terminato, cither in Streight Lincs, WhicM
  11. meet at discernible Angles; or in crooled Pines, Whierein no Angles
  12. can De perceired, by considerins chele as thoy relate to one another, in
  13. all Parrs ofthe Extremities of any Body or Space, it has that Idea We call
  14. Figure, Wrhich attords to eho Mind infinire Varietr. For besides the vast
  15. Number oF ditterent Fisures, that do realls exist in the coherent masses ot
  16. Matter, the StocKE, thar the Mind has in its Porer, by varrins the Idea ot
  17. Space; and thereby makrins sill neu Compolitions, by repeatins its orrn
  18. Ideas, and joinins them as it pleases, is pertectls inexhaustiblo: And So il
  19. ean mulciply Figures in insinitum.
  20. 6. 6. For themind, havins a Porer to repeat the Idea oF any lenotn dis
  21. rectli Sretched out, and join it to another in the lame Direction, whichis
  22. todouble the leneth oFthat Areishe Line; or else join it to anocher it
  23. erhat Inclination it thintes Ar, and so male what sort ot Angle it plcales:
  24. And Deins able allo to thorten ans Linc ic imasines, by tabins tromit Or
  25. Z. Or What part it pleases, withour beins able to come to an end ot anr
  26. tuch Divisions, ic can makce an Ansle oF any bignels: So alsothe lines that
  27. are its sides oE, W hac lensch it pleales, Whuch joinins asain to other Lines
  28. oF different lenschs, and ac different Angles, till ic has wrholle incloled a-
  29. ny Space, it is evident that it can mulciply Figures boch in their Shape
  30. and Capacier, in infinitum, all Wtich are bur so mans different simple
  31. Modes of Space.
  32. The same thar it can do with AreigheLines, it can do also witherooled,
  33. or crooled and Areishe together; and the lame it can do in Lines, it can al
  34. s0 in Superticies, by Wrhich re may be led into Carcher Fhouslts ol thc
  35. endless Varieey oF Ficures, thac the Mind has a Porrer to matce, and there-
  36. by tomultiplr che simple Modes oF SpacC.
  37. 5. 7. Another Idea comines under thisFTcac, and belongins to this Fribe, is
  38. that we call Place. A5 in simple Spaco, e consider the relation oF Di
  39. stance vereen any tiro Bodies, or Points; (0 in our Idea OF PlacC, WC
  40. conlider therelation of Diltance becvint ans chins, and anss tWO Or mOTO
  41. Points, Wrhich are considered, as keepins the lame distance onc rith ano.
  42. cher, and so considered as at rest; For When e find any thing at thesame
  43. distance nor, rhich ic as Vesterdar trom ans ero or more Points,
  44. wrtrich hare noc since changed their distance one ith another, and with
  45. Wtiich we then compared it, e lay it hath kept the same Place: Dut il
  46. it hath sensibly altered its distance ith cither of those Points, ve lay it
  47. hath chansed its Place: Thouoh vulcariy spealins in the common No-
  48. tion ot Place, We do notalrars exactlr oblerve the distance trom precile
  49. Points; Dut larser Portions of sensible Objects, to Which we consider thie
  50. thins placed tobear Relation, and ies distance, trom Which re have lome
  51. Realon eo observe.
  52. 9. 6. Luc Cans ot Chels men, standins Mne ase IGuares bI
  53. ehre Chels. Board, rrhere ve lefr them, We lay thez arc all in the same Place,
  54. er unmored; thoust, perhaps, tho Chess. Board hath been in the mean
  55. cime carricd ouC otonc Roon into anocher, becaule we compared chem oy

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 76. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0092?run=74