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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 112

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  1. Modes of Thinking.
  2. arith cheir ulual quickneS,) in the Mind, not luesested by any external
  3. Opiects. or lnoon occation; nor under any Choice or Conduet of the
  4. Onderstandins at aIl; arid Whether that wrtich e calI Fxtasie, DC NOF
  5. dreamine rith the fres open, I leare to be examined.
  6. 6. 2. Fhele are lomeser instances ofthole rarious Modes of thintinc, Which
  7. the Mind may obserre in it selF, and (0 frame as distinct Ideas Ot, a5 it
  8. does oF Whiro and Red, 2 Square or a Cirele. I do not pretend eo enume.
  9. rate them all, nOr to treat et larse ol this set ot Ideas, Wrhich are gOF
  10. trom Reflection, that ouldbe ro make a Volume. It luffices tomy pre
  11. sent purpole, eo have Mewn here, by some sew FXamples, oF What sorE
  12. those Ideas are, and hou the Mind comes by them; especially since
  13. Pall hare occasion hercaster to treat more at laroe ot Reasonine, Fudeine.
  14. Volition, and Rnouledee, Which are lome of the most considerable Opcra-
  15. tions of the Mind, and Modes oF thinbing.
  16. 5. 3. BuE, perhaps, it may not De an unpardonable Digression, nor
  17. evhollr impertinene to our prelent Delion, ifire reflect here uxon ihe dif-
  18. ferent State of the Mind in thinkine; Wrhichchole instances oF Attention
  19. Resvery, and Oreaming, (5c. Delore mentioned naturally enough sugrest.
  20. Thatthere are Ideas, Lome or other, alvars present in the Mind et a Wa-
  21. Kins Man, every ones Experience convinces him; thouoh the Mlind em
  22. Plors it selt about them ith several degrees ot Arrention. Sometimes
  23. the Mind sixes it selE trith so much carnestness on the Contemplation ol
  24. Tome Objects, that ic turns cheir Ideas on all Ades; remartes their Rela-
  25. tions andCircumstances; and viens every part sonicelr, and with such in
  26. tention, thac it Murs out all ocher Thoustus, and talres no norice ot the
  27. ordinary Imprestions made then on the Senses, Wrhich at anocher Scalon
  28. rould produce verr sensible Perceptions: At other times, it barelr ob-
  29. serres the train of Ideas that succeed in the Vnderstandine, without di
  30. rectins and pursuins ans ofthem: And at othier times, it lers ehem pass
  31. hnost quire unrexarded, as faint pados that makre no Impression.
  32. 5. 4. This difterence ot intention, and Remission of the Mind inthinkins.
  33. rith a great rariets of Degrees, between carnest scudy, and verr negr
  34. minding nochin at all, Fivery one, Pthink, has exporimented in him-
  35. SelF. Frace it a lictle farther, and rou find themind in Slcep, retired as it
  36. ere From the Senses, and out oFche reach oF those Motions made on the
  37. Orsans of Sense, Wrhichat ocher times produce very vivid and sensible
  38. Ideas. Inced nor, For this, instance in thole, Who Acep out whole ctormy
  39. Hliglus, wichour hearins the Thunder, or sccins the Lichenins, or tce
  40. insche akins oE the HTouse, Wrhich are sensible enough to thole who are
  41. akine. Buc in this retirement of cheMind trom the Senses, it Osten retains
  42. avet more loole and incoherent manner of thinkcing, Which rre calt Drea-
  43. mine, and lastoF all sound Slcep closes the Scone quire, and purs an end to all
  44. Appearances. This Pthink almost everr one has Experience oF in him.
  45. TelE, and his omn Obserration ithout difticults leads hum thus tar. That
  46. Wrtrich P vould Farther. conclude trom henco is, That since the Mind can
  47. sensibly Dut on, at several times, several dcorees ol Thinkins; and besome
  48. times eren in a ralins Nan (0 remiss, as to hare Thoughes dim and ob.
  49. scure to that deoree, that thes are verr little removed trom none at all;
  50. aud at last in the dark retiremienes of Cound Slcep, loles che sight perfect.
  51. IV OF all Edeas What(Oever: Since, I lav, ehis is cvidentr (0 in Matter ot
  52. Fact, and constant fxperience, l astr Whether it be noc probable, that thint-
  53. insis the Action, and not ihe Fsence of the Soul: Since the Operarions
  54. Ot Agents Willeasily admit of intention and remistion; but the FPences oF
  55. chines, ale cecired capable ot aux such rariation. But this by che
  56. yC
  57. CITAP

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 112. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0128?run=74