An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 109
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- please; Whereby if a Nan had a positire Idea oF Infinite, citter Dura-
- tion or Space, he could add tuo Intinites together; nay, ake one InH-
- nite insinirels bigser than another, Ablurdities too grois to be contured.
- 5. 2F. But yet it alter all this, there be Men iho perluade themlelves,
- chatcher have clear politire comprehensive Ldeas ol Intiniey, tis sic they
- enjor etieir privilese: And I Mouldbe very glad (with lome ochers that
- lHnor, utio acbnomledse ther have none luch,) to be becter informed
- by their Communication; For I have keen hitherro apetothinte, that FhC
- Freat and inextricable Difficulties, Wtich perpetvally involve all Dis-
- courses concernine Insinity, Whecher of Space, Duration, or Divisibility.
- have been the cerrain martes of a defect in our Ideas of Infinier, and the
- disproportion the Nature chereot has tothe Comprehention ot our nar-
- ron Capaciries. For Whilst Men talke and dispute ot intinite Space or
- Duration, as il ther had as compleat and posirive Ideas oF il, a5 they
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- other determinate Ouantits, it is no monder il the incomprehensible
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- larse and mistuey, to be surrey ed and imanased DY FheI.
- 5. 22. IFThare drelt pretey lones on the Consderations of Duration,
- Space, and Number; and irtrat arises trom ehe Contemplation of them.
- Infiniey, tis possibls no more than the matter requires, there beins ter
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- Operation ot our Mind, has neverthelels, a5 aIl our ottier Ideas, its Ori-
- Sinal there. Some Mathematicians, perhaps, of adranced Speculations,
- mas have ocher ays ro introduceinto their Minds Ldeas oF Innity: BUE
- this hinders not but that ther themselres, as Well as alL Other Men, POL the
- first Edeas cher had os Infiniey, trom Senlation and Rerection, in tlie me-
- thod we have here set donn.
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- and asterards there put tosccer, by the Faculty ehe musr hasto repeat
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- Modes ot the simple Ideas oF Scacton, and suftice eo MeW, hour the
- an account os fome ser Hore, althen procecdto more complex lacus.
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- heare, bur erery one erstands Enelis, has preserels in hismind
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 109. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0125?run=74