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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 85

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  2. d
  3. is
  4. es
  5. sC
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  8. Duration, and its simple Modes
  9. in his Mind Whils he is tatien ux ith thac carnest Conremplation, lets
  10. Aip out oF his Account a good part of that Duration, and thinks that tiime
  11. Morter than it is. Buc il Decp commonle unite the distent parts ol Dura-
  12. tion, it is, becaule durinq that time e hare no succection ot ldeas in our
  13. Minds. For il a Man durins his Slcep, dream, and variety ot Ideas makie
  14. themselres percoptible in his Mind one aster anothor, he hath theri, durine
  15. such dreamine, a Sense oF Duration, and of the lenech of it. By Which
  16. it is to me verr elear, thac Men derire their Ideas ot Duration, Crom their
  17. Reftection on the train of the Ideas, ther oblerre to succeed one another in
  18. their omn Onderstandings, without ihich Oblerration they can have no
  19. Vorion oE Duration, Whacerer mas happen inthe Worid.
  20. 5. 5. Indced a Man, tavins Trom refloctins on the succesion and Num
  21. ber oE his omn PheusHEs, Sot the Norion, or Idea ot Duration, He Can
  22. apply chat Notion eo thines, Wrhieh exist wrhillt he does notchinte; as he,
  23. that has got the Idea o Extension trom Bodies by his Sishe or Touctu, can
  24. apply it to ditances, where no Body is seen or Felt. And theretore, thoush
  25. 2Nan have no Perception of tho lensth of Duration, Wlich past Whilst
  26. he Dept, or thousht noc: Vec harins obserred the Rerolution ot Days
  27. and NiohEs, and foundthe leneth ot their Duration to be in Appearance
  28. regular and constane, he ean, upon the supvolition, thrat that Revolution
  29. has proceeded aster the lame manner, Whils he ras aslecp or thoughe
  30. nOt, as it uled to do et other times, he can, Play, imagine and matio al-
  31. lorvance For the lensth oE Durarion Wtilst he ACPE. But il Adam and
  32. Fve (When cher vere alone in the World) instead ol their ordinary
  33. Niches Slcex, had passed that, and the followins 2g hours in one conti-
  34. nued Slecp, the Duration os char 2 4 hours had been irrecoverably lost tO
  35. them, and been tor ever letr out oE cheir Account oF timo.
  36. 9. 6. Thus by reflectine on the appearins of various ldeas, one after ano-
  37. eber in our Dnderstandinzs, me cet the Notion of Succession; Which il anx
  38. one hould thinti, Wre did rather set trom our Obserration of Morion by
  39. our Senles, he will pertiaps, be of ny Mind irhien he considers
  40. that even Motion produces in his Mind an Ldea OFSUCCEHiON, no Other-
  41. erile than as it produces there a continued train ol distinguistrable Ideas.
  42. For a Man lootrins uxon a Bod realls movins, perceires zet no Motion
  43. at all, unless chat Motion produces a constant train of successive Ideas.
  44. V. 5. 2 MIan becalmed at Sea, OuL OF SIBHEOS Land, in a fair DaY, may
  45. Iook on the Sun, or Sea, or Strix, a wtrole hour rogether, and perceiveno
  46. Motion at alt in cither; thoush it be cerrain, that ero, and vertraps all
  47. of them, have moved, durins that time, a great vas: But as soon as he
  48. perceires cither ol chem to have chansed diltance with lome other Body
  49. 25 soon as thisMorion produces any nem Idea in him, then he percoires,
  50. that there has Been Mocion. But Whore ever a Manis, rith all things at
  51. rest about him, wieliout perceirins ans Mocion at all; il durins this hour
  52. ot quiee he has been chinkins, he will perccire the various Ideas of his
  53. omn Thoushes in his omn Mind, appearins one atter another, and there
  54. by obserre, and Eind Succession, whiero he could observe no Motion.
  55. 6. 7. And ehis, TchintE, is the RCaION, Why Motions very Mon, Fhou∞H
  56. ther are constane, are not perceivedb us; becaule in their remove trom
  57. one sensible part corrards anocher, their chanse ot distance is (o NOW, thaF
  58. it causes no ne Laeas in us, Duca rood rhrile one alter anocher: And (0
  59. ROE CaUIInS a ConStaHE train OF new Ideas, to follor one anocher immedi-
  60. atelr in our Minds, e hare no Perception oF Mocion; Whieh consistine
  61. in a constane Succestion, re cannot perceire that Succestion, without a
  62. constont Succestion ot varyins Edeas arilins scom it.
  63. 3. 6. D.

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 85. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0101?run=74