An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 111
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- verned bythe end ot Specc General Certrich is a very Mort and expe
- dite ray ocenres aur Thoustus one to another) is evident in the
- Names, irhich in several Aris have been tound out, and applicd to leveral
- complex sdeas o moditied Actions, Belonsins to their several Trades, for
- disparch lalre, in their Direction or Discourses about them: Whieh Ideas
- are not generally tramed in the Minds ot Men nor convertant about thele
- Operations; and thence the words that stand For them, by the grearest
- part otMen ol the lame Languase, are not undortood; V. 8. Coltser-
- Orillins, Filtration, Cohobation, are words andins For cerrain complex
- Ideas; ertich beins not in the Minds ofevery bod, ther havins no ule
- Ofthem, thole names olthem are noc generally underHood bur by Smiths.
- and Chimists; Who tavins Framed thecomplex Ideas irtich chese rords
- Sandfor, and havins siven names to them, orreccivedthem trom others
- upon hearins ol thele names in communication, readils conceive thole
- Ideas in their Minds; as by Cohobation allthe simple Ldeas oF Dictillins.
- and thepourins the Liquor, distilled froin any thine, back upon the re-
- mainins Matter, and distillins itagain. Thus we see, that there are great
- varieties oF simple Ldeas, as ot Tastes and Smells, Which have no NamCSi
- and ofModes mans more; irhich cither not havins been generally c
- nough obserrec, or elle not beins otany great ule to be talen notice ot
- in the ACairs and Converse oFMen, they have not had names siven to
- ihem, and (o pals not Por Species, Whieh ire Mall have occasion hereaster
- eo conlider more at larse, when e comero speak of Nords.
- C HI A P. XIX.
- Of the Modes of Thintine.
- JHen che Minee turus ies vier invards upon its sels, and
- contemplates its omn Actions, Thinking is the tirct chat
- Occurrs; Wherein it obserres a great variet of Mlodifications, and there-
- OE trames to it self distindt Ideas. Thus ehie Perception, or Thousht,
- irtrich actualls accompanz, and is annexed to anx impression on the BO.
- dy. made by an external Object, it trames a distinct Idea oF, Wwhich We
- Call sensation; Wtichis, as it vere, the actual entrance ot ariy Idea into
- the Onderstanding by the Senses. The same Idea, irhen it again recurrs
- without the operation of the likre Object onthe eternal Senlory, is Remem-
- brance. IF it be sought alter by the Mind, and rith pain and endeavoue
- Tound, and brouehe again in rieu, tis Recollection: IFit be held chere lone
- under attentive Consideration, tis Contemplation. When Ideus Aoat in
- our Mlind, mithout any reflection or resard of the Understanding, it is
- that rhich the French call Resverr; our Lanouase has scarce a name For
- it. When the Ideas that oHer themselves, (For a5 lhare obserred in ano-
- ther place, irhrilst e are atrakce, there will alvazs be a train of Ideas
- succccdinss onc anocter in our Minds,) arc taleen notice ot, and, as it
- ere, resistred in thie Memorr, it is aetention. Whenthe Mind with
- sreat carnestress, arid of a choice, txes its viem on any Idea, considers it
- On all Sides, and Will nor De Called off by the ordinary Lollicitation ot other
- Ideas, It is thatre cal Intention, or Srudy. Sleep, without dreamins, i5
- rest trom all chese; and Dreamine it selF, is the perception of Ideas (Whils
- che oucuard denles are Rorp d, (0 chat chey receire not ouward Obietts
- victa
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 111. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0127?run=74