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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 133

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  1. Et
  2. R
  3. Mixed Modes.
  4. than eo trouble their Memories by mulciplyins oE complex Ideas wirt
  5. names tothem, Which chey Mall seldom or neverhare ans occasion t0
  6. malie ule oE.
  7. 8. 6. This sires us the Realon hou it comes to pass, that there are in
  8. every Languaze words Which cannot be rendred by anyuords of another. POr
  9. theseveral Fathions, Customs, and Manners ot one Nacion, malins seve
  10. ral Combinarions of ldeas familiar and necessary in onc, Which another
  11. People had neverans oceation tomatce, or, perhaps, (0 much as takio no-
  12. tice ot, Names eome afcourse to he annexed to them, to aroid lons Peri-
  13. phrales in chinssof dails Converlation; and so chey become lo mans di
  14. Rinc complex Ideas in cheir Minds. Thus ospgnuos amons he Cireets,
  15. and Proscripto amonst the Romans, Cood For complex Ideas, Wrhich ivere
  16. noc in che Minds oE ocher People, nor had cheretore ans names in other
  17. Lansuases that ansveredthem. Wherethere ras no such Cuctom, there
  18. vas do notion otans such actions, no ule o( such Combinations ol (deas
  19. 25 Were unitec, and, a5 it vere, tied togetherby thole terms; and theretore
  20. in other Countries there vere no names Torthem.
  21. 8. 7. Fence also e may sec the Reaton, Nhy Langnases constantly
  22. chanse, tale up new, and lay by old terms. Becaule chanse of. Customs
  23. and Opinious bringins with them ne Combinations ot Ldeas, Which it
  24. is necellary frequently to thinks on, and calle about, nem names to avoid
  25. lons delcriptions are annexed to them; and so ther become nem Species
  26. ot complex Modes. What a number of difterent Ideas are by this means
  27. errapped up in oncMore Tound, and hor much ol our Time and Breath
  28. is thereby savec, ans one ill sce, who rill but talle che vains to enu.
  29. merate all the Ideas, chat cither Reprieve or Appeal Cand For; and in
  30. Readol cicher oEchoseWames, ule a Periphrasis to malse ans one under.
  31. stand their meaning.
  32. 8. 8. Thoush I Mall hare occasion to consider this more at larse, Wrher
  33. Tcome to treat of Words, andtheir VSC; vet P could not avoid to takie
  34. thus much notiee here of the names of mixed Modes, Wrhich beins dce-
  35. tins, and trantient Combinations ot simple Ideas, Which hare but a More
  36. existenee ans irhere, bur in the Minds of Men; and there too hare no
  37. lonser ans existence, chan WrhilA ther are thoushe on, have not so much
  38. any vohere the appearance of a constant and lastine existence, as in their
  39. Names; Wrtrich are therelore, in thele sort oF Ideas, very apt tobe tatsen For
  40. the Ideas chemselves. For ifive Mould enguire where ehe Idéa oF a Tri-
  41. umph, or Apetheosis ezists, it is evident, cher could neither of them exist al
  42. together any wrhere in che chinss chemlelres, beins actions that required
  43. time totheir pertormance, anc (o could never all exist together: And ad
  44. to the Minds oFMen, Wrhrere the Ideas ofthese Actions are suppoled tobe
  45. lodsed, ther have there t00 a very uncertain existencs: and cheretore
  46. re are apt ro annex them to the Names that excire them in US.
  47. 6. 9. There are therelore thrée mays wherebyve set these complex Ideas of
  48. mixed Modes. L. By Experienice and Observation ot chinss themselves. Ttus
  49. by sceing tiro Men vrasle; or fence, e get te Idea oF trrahling or
  50. fencins 2. By Invention, er voluntarr purtins together ol several simple
  51. Ideas in our own Mincs: S0 he that trst invented Princins, or Erchins, had
  52. an Ldea ot it in his ptind, belore it ever exicted. 3. Whichis the mole
  53. ulual rar, by explainine the names ot Actions ve nevet lar, or Notions
  54. ie cannot lec; and by enumeratins, and cherebr, as it vere, lertins be-
  55. fore our Imaginations all chole Ideas which so ro the matins them up
  56. andare the constituent parts of them. Por havins by sensation ard Re
  57. Rection Aored our Minds wich sumple Ldeas, aud by ule POr rhe Names
  58. EhaE

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 133. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0149?run=74