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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 87

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  1. Chap. LL LV. Duration, and its simple Modes
  2. 5. F3. IF it be (0, that the Ideas ot our Minds, Whils we tave any
  3. there, do constantly chanse, and silt in a continual succession, it roula
  4. De impossible, may ans one sar, For a Man cothink lons ol any onethins:
  5. By erhich it it De meant, that a Man maz have one self. Came ponele Idea a
  6. lone time alone in tis Mind, without any variation at alb T think, in Mlat-
  7. ter oF Fact it is not possible, For Wrtrich (not Hnowing how the Ideas ot our
  8. Mlincs are tramed, oF What Materials they are made, erhience they have
  9. their Y johE, and hor cher come to makse cheir AppearanCCS,) L ean sive
  10. no other Reason but Experience: and l erould have any orie err, irhecher
  11. he ean leep one unvaried sinole Idea in his Mind ithout an, ortier, for
  12. any considerable rime together.
  13. 8. F4. For Frial, lex him cake any Fioure, any Deorec ot Liptic or Whire
  14. nels, Or what ocher he pleales; and he Will, I supposo, find it difficule eo
  15. Keep all ocher Ldeas out oF his Mind: Bur that lome, cittier ol another
  16. Kind, or various Consideration oF that Ldea (each of Which Consideration
  17. is a neW Idea) ill constanty succeed one anoctier in his ThOUGHES, lCE
  18. himm bC as Wary as he Can.
  19. 6. F5 AII that is in a Man s Porer in this Case, P think, is ontr to mind
  20. and observo Wrhat the Pdeas are, that take their turns in his Undepstin-
  21. dins; or elso, 1o direct the sort, and call in such as he hath a desire or use
  22. OE: bur hinder the constant Succession oF trest ones, I thinte he cannot,
  23. thouxh he mar commonls chuse, Whether he ill hecdtulli obserre, and
  24. Consider Fhem.
  25. 5. 26. Whecher these sereral Edeas in a ManSMind be macle by certain
  26. Motions, IWill not here dispute: Buc this lam lure, that ther include no
  27. Idea oF Motion in cheir Aprearance; and il a Man had noc thc Idea ot
  28. Morion ocherwise, Pthints, he vould have none at alI, Wrhich is enougheo
  29. y present Purpole; and suffcient ly Mews, that the notice We take ofthe
  30. Ideas ofour onn Minds, appearins there onc alter another, is that wrhich
  31. sires us the Ldea ot Succession and Duration, Without wrhich we Mould
  32. have nO such Ldeas aF aII. Tis not then, Morion, Duc the constant train
  33. OF Ideas in our Minds, Wrhilst we are walcine, that farnistres us with the
  34. Idea of Duration, WhereoMotion no otherrise sires us any Perceptioi.
  35. thanas it causes in our Minds a constant succesion of Ideas, as P have bct
  36. Fore Mrewed: and e hare as clear an Idea ot Succestion, and Duration
  37. brcherrain of Ldeas succcedins one another in our Mlincs, Without che
  38. Idea ot any Morion, as by the train oE Ldeas of the uninterrurted chanse
  39. oF distance berwoen ero Bodies, Which etiare tromMorion; and there.
  40. fore we Mould as ellhare the idea oF Duration, vere chere no Senle ot
  41. Motion ac aIl.
  42. 5. 17. Flavins thus gor the Idea or Duration, the nexe thins natural
  43. For theMtind to do, is to ser lomemeasure of this common Duration, Where.
  44. by it might judse of its different lenoths, and consider the distinet Order
  45. rherein several chines exist, without which a great part of our Rnomledoe
  46. rould be consued, and a great part ol Isistory be rendered very uselels.
  47. This Consideration oE Durations, as set out by certain Periods, anid
  48. markied by certain Measures Or Fpochs, is that, Pchinle, Which most pro-
  49. Perly We cali Fime.
  50. 5. 28. In themeasurins OF Extension there is nothing more required buE
  51. ehe Applicarion olthe Scandard or Mealure Wemalse ule ol, to the thins ot
  52. Whose Fixtension We rould be informed. But in themeaturinque of Duration,
  53. this cannor bedone, becaule no trro different parts of Succestion can BC puF
  54. together to meature one anocher. And nothine beine a measure of Dura-
  55. sion, buc Durarion; as nochins is oE Extension bu Excension, WC can-
  56. NOL

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 87. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0103?run=74