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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 96

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  1. . Duration and Fxpansion considered roset her. B00
  2. thetime when the thiris existed, is the sdea oF that Space oF Duration,
  3. which passed betreen some bnoun and Aixed Period of Duration, and che
  4. Beins oFthac chine. One Mers the distance of the Fixtremities of the
  5. Bult, or fxistence ofthe same thins, as that it is a Foot Square, or lasted
  6. ENO VCarS; the other Meus the distance ot it in Place, or Exictence
  7. trom ocher tixed points of Duration or Space; as that it as in che mid
  8. ile oF Lincolus-Inn- Fields, or the tirst deoree of Taurus, and in the rear
  9. OFour Lorc, 1677. Or the f00O ycar oF the Fulian Period: AII Whick
  10. distances, we measure by preconccired Ideas ot certair lensths OF SpacC
  11. and Durarion, as Incties, Fcet, Miles, and Degrees, arid in the ottier Mi
  12. nutes, dars andt YCarS, (06.
  13. 6. 9. There is one thins more, wherein Space and Duration tiave à
  14. ereat Conformitr, and thac is, though they are justly reckoned amonest
  15. our simple Ideas: Tet none ol the diltinet Ideas re have oF cither is with.
  16. Outall manner oE Composition, it is the very Nature oF both of themto con-
  17. sict OsPartS: But their Pares beins all oF che lame linc, and ithour the
  18. mixture oFany other Idea, hinderthem not trom havins a Place aniongst
  19. simple Ideas. Couldthe Mind, as in Number, come to (0 Imall a part oF
  20. Fxtension or Duration, as excluded Dirilibiliey, that vould be, a5 it Were,
  21. the indirisible Onito, or Pdea; By repetition of irhich, it vould makee its
  22. more inlarsed Ideas oF Extension and Duration. Buc lince the Mind is
  23. not able totrame an Ldea ot ans Space, without Parts; instead thereof it
  24. malses ule ofthe common Meatures, Which by Familiar ulc, in cach C’oun
  25. ery hare imprinted themselres on the Memorr (a5 Tnches, and Feet; Or
  26. Cubito, andParalanes; and (o Scconds, Minutes, ITours, Days, and l’ears
  27. in Duration:) ThoMind makes ulc, ICar, of sueh Ideas as thele, assim
  28. pleones; and these are thecomponent Parts of larser Ideas, Wrhich the
  29. Mind, uxon Occation, malies by the addition ot luch lnomn Lensens,
  30. nrtrich it is aequainted wich: Om the other side, the ordinarr smallest
  31. mealure re hrave of either, look d on as an Vnite in Number, when thé
  32. Mind by dirition mould reduce them into lels Fractions. Thouch on
  33. boch sides, boch in addition and division, cither oF SpacO or Duration,
  34. Wrhen che sdea under Consuleration becomes very bis, or very small, the
  35. Idea ol is precile Bults becomos very obscure and consused; and it is the
  36. Number of itsrepealed additions, or dirisions, that aloneremains clear and
  37. distinct, as rill easils appear to ans one, who will ler his Phovohts loole
  38. in the vast Expansion of Space, or Divisibilies oEMTatter. Fvens Dart OF Du
  39. ration is Duration t00; and evers pare ot exiention is tixtention, boph
  40. Of therm capable os addition on divition in insinirum. But the lealt BOr-
  41. tiorsos cithier ofthem, wrhereot we have clear and diltinet Ideas, mas,
  42. Perliaps, bo turest tole considered by us, a5 the simple Ideas ot chachind,
  43. out ottrhich oux complex modes of Space, Eixtention, and Durarion,
  44. are macte ux, and into rhich ther can aeain be distinctly rosolved. Suct
  45. a snollpare in Duration, maz De called a Moment, and is thotime ot one
  46. idea in our Minds, in che train of their ordinars Succession there. The
  47. others vantins a prover Name, Ihnon non whecher l may be allorredio
  48. cau a sensible Roint, meanins therebis ihe least Partiele ot Matter
  49. ox Space tre can discern, Wrhich is ordinarilz abour a. Sccond of a Cirele,
  50. Whereosthe Fyois ehe Contre.
  51. G. 20. Fixpantion, and Duration have chis Parther Agreement, that
  52. thousha ther aue both conldered by us as havins Pares; sei their Parts
  53. arc nos separable one trom anorher, no not oven in Phoughe: Phoughthe
  54. Partsos Bodies, trom Wrhence e takre oux mealure ol theone; and the,
  55. PArIS. OEMorion, or rathex che succettion ot Ideas in oux Minas, trom
  56. WrhCMCO

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 96. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0112?run=74