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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 110

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  1. Other simple Ntcus.
  2. distinct Zdeas, Wrhich are all but the different modifications oF NoriOn.
  3. Modes of Motion antirer thole oF Eixtention; Srist and Slow are uodif
  4. ferent Ideas ofMotion, the meatures Whereof aremade ot the diltances ot
  5. Time and Space puc tosether, (o ther are complex Ideas comprehendins
  6. Time and Space irith Motion.
  7. 5. 3. Thelike variety have we in Sounds. Every articulate ord is à
  8. different modisication of Sonnd; by which we sec, that froin the sense ot
  9. FIcarins by such modifications, the Mind may be Furnished ich distinct
  10. Ideas, to almost an infinite Number. Sounds also, besides the distinct
  11. cries oF Birds and BCasts, are modified by diversiti of Notes of different
  12. leneth pur together, Which malre that complex (deacal d a Tune, erhick
  13. aMuisiciari may have in hisMind, When he hears or makes no soune at
  14. all, by rellectins on the Ldeas ot thole Sounds, (0 put together slently in
  15. his orntaner.
  16. 5. 4. Those ofColours misht also be verr various; fome ive tatie no-
  17. tice otas the difterent deorees, or as they are termed, Shades of the same
  18. Colour: But since ve rery soldom makre assemblages of Colours, cither for
  19. Vsc or Delight, but Figure is taten in allo, and has its pare in it, as in
  20. Painting. Wearing. Necdle- orHS, (56. Those wtich are tatcen notice
  21. Ot do most commonty belono to mixed Modes, as being made up ot
  22. Ideas ot divers kinds, viz. Figure and Colour, such as Beautr, Rain
  23. DOW, (5c.
  24. 6. 5. All compounded Fastes and Smells, are allo Modes made ux osthese
  25. Cmple Ideas oF those Senles; but ther beins such as gencrally re have
  26. nonames For, are lels tatennorice ot, and cannor be set donn in evritin:
  27. and therelore must De letr rithout cnumeration, to the Phousles and LX-
  28. perience oF my Reacer.
  29. 5. 6. In general it mar beobserved, that thole simple Modes which are
  30. considere d but as different derrees of the same simple Idea; thoush chey are
  31. in themselres manr ot them very distinet Ldeas; y et have ordinarily no
  32. distinct Names, nor are much talen notice oF as dictinct Ideas, irtiere
  33. the difference is but very snall betrreen them. Whether Nen have ne
  34. slected these Modes, and siven no Names to them, a5 rantins measures
  35. nicels to distinsuistr them, or because wrhen ther vere (o distinguistred,
  36. thac Knomledoe ould not be ot general or necessarr usc, I leave iE FOFhO
  37. Thouxhs oForhers; it is susficient to my purpole to MeW, that aIl chese
  38. simple Ldeas, come to our Minds onty by Sensation and ReRoction; and
  39. thac Whenthe Mindhasthem, ic can various repeat and compound
  40. them, and (o malce ne complex ideas. But thoush Whice, Red, or Sivect,
  41. CSc. hare not beenmodisied or made into complex Ideas, by several Com-
  42. binations, (0 as to be named, and thereby rantced into Species; vet fome
  43. Others of the simple Ldeas, viz. those oF Unity, Duration, Morion, (95.
  44. abore instanced in, as also Porver and Thintcins have been thus moditied
  45. to a great variets of complex ldeas, with Names belonsins tothem.
  46. 5. 7. The Reason mhereof, I supvosc, has been this, Thatthegreat Con.
  47. cerrment of Men beins rith Men onc amonsst another, theHnomledse
  48. OtNen, and their Actions, and the lignilgins ol them to one another,
  49. as most necellarr; and cheretore ther made Ideas of Actions very nicely
  50. modisied, and sare thole complex Ideas names, that thes mighe the more
  51. casils record and discourse ol thole thinss ther tere daily converlant in,
  52. trithout lone Ambases and Circumlocurions; and that the thinos thes
  53. rere continualls to sive and receire information about, misht bethe
  54. calier and quicker understood. Fhac this is (0 and thar Men in tramine
  55. ditterene complex tdcas, and sivine ihem Wames, have becn vee
  56. verned

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 110. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0126?run=74