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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 77

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  1. Simple Modes of Space.
  2. Iy tOFHC ParES OFtho Chels. Board, Which Leex che lame distance one rictr
  3. another. The Chess. Board, We also Par, is in the same Place it Was, iF it
  4. remain in EhC Came parE OF tHC Cabin, though, perhraps, the Ship it is in,
  5. Cails all the Wrhile: and the Strip is said to be in the same Place, suppolins
  6. it sepethe lame distance rith the Parts of the neishbourins Land; chouslis
  7. perhaps, the Farch hach turned round; and so both Chels men, and Board.
  8. aud Strip, have everr onc chanced Place in respoet ol remoter Bodies, rhich
  9. have. hepethe same distance one with another. Bur y et the diltancetrom
  10. certain Parts oFthe Board, beins that which determines the place of thic
  11. Chels. men; and the distance trom the Eixedparts oEche C abin (With which
  12. ve macle the Comparilon) beins that erhich determined the Place of thc
  13. Chesshoard, and the Axed parrs ot the Farth; that by trhich e determi
  14. ned che Place ol the Strip, chese thines mas be laid property to bein thc
  15. same Place, in thole respects: Thoush cheir discance from lome other
  16. things, Which in thismatter re did not consider, beins varied, ther have
  17. undoubtedly chanced Place in that respeet; and re our selres MaII chin
  18. (0, When e hare occalion to compare them with thole ocher.
  19. 8. 9. Bur thisModification of Distance, we call Place, beins made by Men-
  20. for their common ule, thatby it ther mixhe be able to desien che parti
  21. cular Polition of Thinss, Wrhere ther had occasion for luch Delignation,
  22. Nen consider and determine of this Place, by reterence to thole adiacent
  23. things, trhich best serred to cheir present Purpose, without conliderins
  24. other Fhinos, Wrhich to anottier Purpose vrould verrer determine the Place
  25. olche lame chins. Thus in theChess. board, the use ofche Desirnation of
  26. the Place oF cach Chels. men, beins determined orly withinthat chequer d
  27. piece oE Wood, trould erossthat Purpole, ro meature ir by any chins elle:
  28. Buc Whenchesevers Chessmen are pur up in a Bag, il ans one Mould asti
  29. erhere theblack Rinsis, it rould be prover to derermine the Place by the
  30. Paris of theRoom it was in, and not by the Chels. board; there beins a
  31. nother ule ot desienins the Place, it is vo in, chan erhen in Play it Was
  32. on the Chols. Board, and (o must be determined by other Bodies. S0 it
  33. 2ny. one Mouldasti, in Wrhat Place are the Verses, Whchreporethe Story
  34. OF Nisus and Furialus, tould be very improper to determine chisPlace,
  35. by Carins, they vere in suchi a part of the Farth, or in BodleySLibrary:
  36. Buc the rislt Delignation ot theplace, rould De by che parts oF Virgit d
  37. Wortes; and the prover Ansiver rould be, That chele V’erses rvere about
  38. themidelle ot the Winth Book os his Fneides; And thacches hare been
  39. alrays constantls inche lame Place erer lince rirsit vas printed: Whueh
  40. is true, thoussa the Bool it selF hach moved a Thouland times, the ule ot
  41. ihe Idea oF Place here, beinsto lno only, in What part ol the Book chat
  42. Story is; that lo upon occalion, we mas hnow whereto tind ic, and have
  43. recourle to it for our ule
  44. 8. 7O. That our Idea oF Place, is nochins elle, bur such a relative POsi-
  45. tion ol ans chins, as I have belore mentioned, Lchinte, is plain, and rilt
  46. be casily admitted, when e consider, that we can have no Idea otche place
  47. OltheVnirerse, thoustuve can ot all ehe parts oF ic; becaule berond chat,
  48. ive have not the Idea ot ans tixed, distinet, particular Beines, in relerence
  49. corticle, ve can imagine it to have any relation ot distance; but aII Ben
  50. rond ic is one unitorm Space or Expanlion, vherein the Mind finds no va-
  51. riees, no marks. For to lay chat che Wortd is somenhere, meansnomore
  52. buc chatic does exist; this thoustr a Phrale, borrored trom Place, lignity
  53. ins ouls is Existence, noc Location; and ihen one can tind our, and
  54. Frams in his Mind clearly and distinctly the Place oP the Vniverse, he ill
  55. be abse 10 cellus, wrhether ic moves or Rands Nill in ehe undistinsuistrable
  56. INARE

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 77. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0093?run=74