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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 134

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  1. Mixed Modes.
  2. ChaE Ctand FOr Fhem, We Can By FhOLO NAIeS rePTESenE LO anOthEr Any
  3. complex Idea, re could have him conceive: Pothat it tas in it nr sirtiple
  4. Ldea DutWhat heknos, and has, ith us, the lame nametor. Forall our
  5. complex Ideas are ultimatelr relolvable into limple Ideas, ot whrieh ther
  6. are compoundec, and originally made up, thouxh perhraps elicir immedi.
  7. ate Inoredients, 25 I Mar (0 lar, are also complex Ideas. Tties thie mix-
  8. ed Mode, Which the word Lve Carids For, is made ot chese simple Laeas:
  9. F. Articulate Sounds. 2. Cerrain Ideas in thc Mind ot the speaker.
  10. 3. Those ords the signs oF thole Ideas. 4. Fhose (IGHS PUF FOgCtHerDS
  11. astirmation or negation, otherivise than the Ideas they Cand ter, ore in
  12. the Nlind otthe Spealer. Tchink Inecd not ∞0 any farther in the AA2IY-
  13. sis ot ehiat complex Idea, ve call a LyC: Wrhar I have Caid is enorxs to
  14. Mer, thatic is made ux oE siriple Ideas: And it could nOE buE BC an OF
  15. fentrve redioulness eo iny Reader, eo trouble him wieh a more minute
  16. enumeration ot ever particular simple Idea, that goes to this complex
  17. onc; erhich trom rhat tias been said, he cannor bur ke able to malce out
  18. tohimselt. The Came may be done in all our complex ideas Wrhatlo
  19. ever; Wrhich horrever componrided, and decompounded, may ae las Be
  20. resolved into simple Pdeas, irhrichare all the Materials oF Rnomledge or
  21. Thoushe ire hareor canhave. Nor Mallne have reason to fear, that the
  22. Nind is hereby sinted to too scantr a number of ideas, il ve conlider,
  23. Wrhrat an inexhraustible Aock oF simple Modes, Number, and Fisure alone
  24. aftords us. ITou Par them mixed Modes, Which admit ot thevarious Com
  25. binations ofdisterene smple Ideas, and cheir infinite Mlodes, are From De-
  26. ins Peu and scaner, we may casils imasino. Sochat betore we hiave done.
  27. We Mallee, that, no Body necd be atraid, he Mall have scope, and compals
  28. enoustitor his Thoushsto range in, thoushi they be, asl prerend, contr
  29. tred only to simple Ideas reccired trom Senlation or Resection, and their
  30. several combinations.
  31. 5. F0. Ttisworthi our observins which of allour simple Ideas bave been most
  32. modisced, and had most mixed Modes made out of them, with names eiven
  33. tothem: And thole havebeen these chree; Thinkins, and Notion, (Wwhich
  34. are the tro Ideas trhich comprehend in them all Action,) and POver,
  35. trom Wvhence thele Actions are conceired to AOW. Thele simpe Ldeas,
  36. Cay, of Thinkino. Morion, and Pover, have Been those, Wrhich have been
  37. iost moditied; and out ot whose Moditications have been made most
  38. complex Moces, withr names to them. For Action being ehe preat busi-
  39. ness oFNtantind, and the whole marter about wtrich aII Laws are con
  40. versant, it is no vonder, thac the several Modes oF Thinkins and Motion,
  41. Aiould De taken norice oF, the Ldeas ot them observed and laid up in tho
  42. Mlemorr, and have Names assigned torhem; without itrich, Lairs could
  43. Bebut ill made, or Vice and Dilorders repressed. Nor could any Com
  44. munication be ell had amonost Men, withour such complex Ideas,
  45. ith Names cothem; and cherctore Men hare serled Names, and suppo.
  46. sed setled Pdeas in theirMinds, oF modes ot Actions distinguishred by their
  47. Causes, Means, Objects, tinds, Instruments, Time, Place, and other cir.
  48. cumstances; and alio ot their Porvers Acced For thole ACtiOnS; V. e. POld
  49. nels is the Poiver to speak or do belore others, rithout fear or disorder;
  50. and the Greeks caII the contidence ot speakrino by a peculiar name
  51. raeenoix: Which pouer or abilitr in Man, eF doins ans chins, vhen it hus
  52. been acquired by trequent doing the lamethins, is, that the Idea ve name
  53. labit; Wtien it is forrard, and reads upon everr occation, to break into
  54. Action, We call it Disposition: Fhus Teltinels is 2 dispolition or aprnessto
  55. be al6J.
  56. 1

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 134. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0150?run=74