An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 83
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- Simple Mlodes of Space.
- stance; or Whether they ill chinke the Nords oF che most knowino
- Kins Solomon, Jhe Tleaven, and the Tleaven of FTeavens, cannot contain Thee;
- Ox thole more empharical ones of the inspired Philosopher Sc. Paul, In FTim
- ne live, move, and have our Beinz: are tobe understood in a literal sense
- Tleare every one to consider; orily our Idea ot Space is, I think, luch as
- Thave mentioned, and distinct from FhaE OF BodV. For Wrhether e consider
- in matter it CelE the diltance of its coherent solid pares, and call it, in re-
- spect otthose solid parts, Fatension; or Wrhether considerins it, as lring
- betrreen the extremities ot anr Body in its several dimentions, we call it
- Length, Breadch, and Thictness; or else considerins it as lyiris betreen
- ans erro Bodies, or polutire Beinss, rithout ans consideration, Whether
- there De ars Macter or no betreen, e call it Distance. Florrever rg-
- med or considered, it is alivars the lame unitorm simple Idea et spase,
- rakcen from Objects, about which our Senseshare been conversant, Whera
- ot travins setled Tdeas in our Minds, ve ean revire, repeat, and addthem
- one toanother asolten as re will; and consiler the Space or Distance (0
- imagined, cither as filled rith solid parts, (0 that another BocY cannot
- come there, withour displacins and chrusting out the Body thatWr asthere
- betore; or else as void ot Solidier, (0 thar a Bocy oF equal dlimensions eO
- that empey or pure space, may be placed in it withour che removins or
- expulsion of any thins chat as there.
- 5. 27. The lnowins precisels wrhat our Words Stand For, rould, lima-
- ginc, inthis, as ell as a great many orher cales, quichls end the dispute.
- ForTam aptto chink, thatMen, When cher cometo examine them, sind
- their simple Ideas all generally to aeree, thioush in discourle with one a-
- nother, thes perhaps consound one anocher ich different Names.
- imaxine, chat Men irtio abstraet cheir Thouches, and do vell examine the
- Ideas of their own Minds, cannot much differ in thintins; horvever, they
- mar perplex themselres rithords, accordins to the way ot speatins ot
- the sereral Schools, or Sects ther hare been bred up in: Though amonest
- unthintsins Men, Who examine not scrupuloussr and caretully their orn
- Ideas, and Rrip them not trom the martrs Nen ule for them, but con
- Found them ith mords, there must be endlels dispute, vrrangline, and
- jarson; especially if ther be learned boohim Men, derored to lome Sect,
- and accustomed to the Languase oF ic; and have learned totalk atter
- Others. But iF it sould happen, chat any rro chinkins Men Mould realtr
- have different Ideas, cifferent Norions, ldo nor sec hor ther could dis-
- course, or argue one ithanother. IPere Imult not bemiltaken, to chintc
- that every Roatins Imacination in Mens Brains, is presentlr ot thac sort
- OE Ideas I speak ot. Tis not calie for theMind to put oA thole contused
- Nocions and Prejudices it has imbibed trom Custom, Inadverteney, and
- common Conversation: it requires pains and altiduits to examine its
- Ideas, tillit resolves them into those clear and distinet simple ones, out ot
- Which ches are compounded; andro sec whieh, amonsties simple ones,
- hare or hare notanccelsars connexion and dependence onc upon another:
- Till a Man dochehis in the primarr and original Notions ot Thinos, he
- builds upon Aoatins anduncereain Principles, and will osten sind himsetF ac
- 2 10(5.
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 83. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0099?run=74