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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 137

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  1. Our Ideas of Substances.
  2. complex Idea olchole Subctances, erhicha Smith, or a seveller, common-
  3. ly knons betrer than a Philolopher; erho, vrhatever substantial forms ho
  4. mar talt ot, has no other Idea oF those Substances, than wrhrat is tramed
  5. by a collection ot thole simple Ideas are to be Found in them; only wo
  6. must talre notice, that our complex Ideas ot Substances, besides all these
  7. simple Ideas ther are made up ot, have alvass theconsuled ldea ot lome
  8. chins eo which ches belons, and in which cher sublist: and theresore
  9. Whien re speak ot ans Port of Subltance, we lay it is a chine havins suct
  10. or such Oualities, 25 Body is a chins thacis extended, tigured, and ca-
  11. pable oF Motion; 2 Spirit a thins capable ot thinking: and (0 ITardneIs,
  12. Friabilier, and Porer to drar tron, e lay, are Qualities to be tound in a
  13. Loadstone. These aud, the like factions oF speakcing intimate, cat the
  14. Substance is suppoled alvass (omethins belides thefxtention, Figuro, 50.
  15. licity, Mocion, Phintcins, or other oblerrable Sdeas, thoush Wc knOW nOE
  16. Wrtac iC 15.
  17. SI Fenco when we calk or thinle ot any particular TOrE oF corporeal
  18. Substances, as HTorse, Stone, Csc. thouxh the Idea, e have of cither ol
  19. them, be but the Complication, or Collection, oF thole leveral simple Ideas
  20. of sensible Dualities, Which e ule to tind united in the thins called
  21. FTorle, or Stone, yet becaule we cannot conceire, how ther Mould sublict
  22. alone, nor one in another, we suppose ihem io exist in, and supported by
  23. some common subject; Which Support ve denote by the name Substance-
  24. chouch it be certain, e have noclear, or distinct idea ot that chins, We
  25. suppose a Support.
  26. 5. 5. Thelame happens concernins the Operations oP the Mind, viz
  27. Thintins. Rcalonins, Fcarins, (5c. Whieh me concludins not to subsist ot
  28. chemselres, nor apprehendins hon cher can belons to Body, or bc pro
  29. duced by it, we are apt to thinss chese the actions ot some other Sub.
  30. Aance, which re calt Spirir; Whereby rec uc is crident, chat havins no
  31. Ocher Idea or Nocion, oF Matter, buc somethins wherein thole many
  32. sensible Oualicies, wtich afteet our senses, do sublist; by supposins 2
  33. Substarice, Wherein Thinkine, Knowing, Doubtins, and a pover ot Movins, (56.
  34. do sublict, We have as clear a Norion of the Nature, or Substance of Spirit
  35. asme have of Body; the onebeins supposed to be (withour lnowins irtrat
  36. it is) the substratum co thole simple Ideas we have trom withour; and
  37. the ocher suppoled (With a litce ignorance oP what it is) eobe the substra-
  38. tum to those Operations, Which e experiment in our selves within. Tis
  39. plain chen, that the Idea ot corporeal Substance in Matrer is as remote
  40. trom our Conceptions, and Apprehentions, as that of Spiritual Substance,
  41. Or Spirit: and cheretore trom our not harins any norion ol che subltance
  42. el Spirit, We can no more conclude its non-Exiltence, than we can, tor
  43. the lame realon, dens theExistence oF Body: Ic beins asrational toastum,
  44. chereis no Bod), because re cannot bnow its P. Nencc, a5 tis called, or
  45. have no Ldea oF the Substance oF Matter; as to Cay, there is no spirit,
  46. Decause We LLHOW nOE itS Esence, or have no Idea oF a Spiritual Sub.
  47. Stance.
  48. 5. 6. Wharever cheretore Be the lecret ane absract Nature OF Substance
  49. ingeneral, aIL The Ideas ve have of parricular distinct Substances, are nothine
  50. but several Combinations of simplo Ideas, coextristing in such, thouph un-
  51. knon, Cause ot cheirOnion, as malces the whole sublist oF ic selt. Pis by
  52. such Combinations oF simple Ldeas, aud nochins elle, that we represent
  53. particular Substances to our selves; such are rhe Ideas we have ot their
  54. several sores in our Minds; and sueh only do ve by their specitick NameS,
  55. sixnitie ro octiers, v. 5. Man, Horle, Sun, Wacer, tron, upon lcarine
  56. erhich

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 137. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0153?run=74