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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 82

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  1. Simple Alodes of Space.
  2. Space roid of Body, equal toche smallest separate Particle OF Matter non
  3. existing in Nature, tis sill Space Without Body; and makes as Great a
  4. difference betreen Space and Body, as it it ere Meya rcoua, a distance as
  5. ide as any in Nature. And cheretore il e suppose noc the void Space
  6. necessaris toMotion, equal tothe least parcel of the divided solid Matter,
  7. Duc to or OFit, thelame consequence will alvays Follo ot Space ich
  8. OUE MLaEECr.
  9. 9. 23. But the Oueltion beinghere, Whether he Ldea of SpaCC OT FX
  10. tension, be the same with ehe Idea of Body, it is not necellary to prove the
  11. real existence oF a Vacuum, Dut the Idea oF ic; irhich tis plain Men have.
  12. Wrhen ther enquire and dispute, Whether there De a Vacuum or no: Por il
  13. ther had nOE the Ldea oF Space withont Body, ther could nor make a
  14. queltion about its existence: And il their Idea ot Body did noc include
  15. in it Comething more thanthe bare Idea of Space, chey couldhave no douDé
  16. about the plenitude of the Worid; and trould De as absurd to demand,
  17. ertrecher chere vere Space ithout Body, as Whether there rere space
  18. rithout Space, or Body ithout Body, since these vere bur different
  19. Names oFthelame Idea.
  20. 6. 24.Tis true, the Idea oEFxtensonjoins it TelF (0 inseparably wich 2II
  21. vilible, and most tansible Oualities, that it lutters us to see noonc, or seet
  22. very fer external Objects, withour takcing in imprections of Fxtension t00.
  23. This readinels of Fxtension to mako it self be talien norice of so constanty
  24. rith orher Pdeas, has been the occasion, I guels, chat Pome have made tho
  25. Whole ellence ot Body, 10 consist in Extension; ertrich is not much to
  26. De mondred at, since some have had their Minds, Dy cheir Fres and
  27. Touch, (the Busestot all our Senles,) (0 Tilled wich the Idea OE Fxter-
  28. Fon, and as it ere wholly porsesled wich it, thar cher allored no exi
  29. stence toany thine, thachad not Extension. IMall not nor argue with
  30. those Nen, Wrho tatee the measure and possibility ol all Beins, only From
  31. their narrom and gross Imasinations: but havine here to do ontr richi
  32. thole, wrtro conclude the essence of Body to De Lxtension, becaule, they
  33. Pay, ther cannot imagine any sensible Oualier of any Body without PX-
  34. tention, IMall desire them to consider, Tharhad eliey reflected on their
  35. Ideas of Fastes and Sinells, as much as on thole of sight and Pouch;
  36. nay, had thes examined their Ideas of Punser and Thirst, and several
  37. Ocher Pains, they rould hare Found, chat they included in them no Idea ot
  38. Fxtension at all, erhich is but an affection oF Body, 25 ell as the rest dii-
  39. corcrable by our Senses, Wtrich are scarce acure enoush to look into the
  40. Pure Fsence OF ThingS.
  41. 5. 25. It those Ideas, Which are constaney joinedto all others, must
  42. theretore be concluded to be the Rssence ot those Things, Wtrick hare
  43. constanty chole Ideasjoined to them, and are inseparable trom them;
  44. etien Onier is without doube the elsence of every thing. Por there is not
  45. any Object ot sensation or Reflection, Wrhich docs not carry ith ic che
  46. Idea oF one: But the eatenels oF chis Kind oF Arsument, e have alreads
  47. Thewn Cufficiener.
  48. 6. 26. Toconclude, Wrhatever Men Pall chink concernins the exi-
  49. Bence OF a Vacuum, chis is plain come, That e have as clear an Ldea of
  50. Space distinct from Solidity, as re have oE Solidier distinct trom Motion,
  51. or Biotion from Space. We have not any two more diltinct Ideas, aud
  52. ve can as casilr conceire space ichont solidier, as e can conccive BO
  53. dr Without Motion, thovoh ic De never (0 certain, that neither Body nOr
  54. Morion can exist without Spaco. But Whether anr one will tatce Space
  55. 10 beontys a relation resultiris trom the Existence ol orher Beines at a di
  56. Rarice:

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 82. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0098?run=74