An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 150
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- Relation.
- 8. 3. Amonest such kind ot collective Ideas, are to be counted most part
- OE artificial Things, at least such of them as are made up ofdistinct substan.
- ces: And, in trutt, is e consider alL thele collectire Ideas arignt, a5
- ARMY. Constellation, niverse; as thez are united into (0 mans
- Iingle Ideas, they are but the artificial Draushes of the Mind, bringino
- things very remote, and inderendent one trom anocher, into one vieu
- the berter to contemplate, and discourse ot them, united into one conce-
- ption, and signisied by one name. Forthere areno Things IO reMOTC, nOr
- Cocontrary, Which che Mind cannot, by this art oF Compolition, brins
- inco ore Idea, as is visible in chat sisrilied by che name Dniverse.
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- CH AP. ZXY
- Of Relation.
- S. F. ID Fsidesthe Ldeas, Whether simple or complex, that the Mind
- has of Thinss, as thes are in themselves, chere are others ic
- gets trom cheir comparison one rrith another. The Inderstanding, in
- the consideration of ans thing, is not contined to that precile Object:
- IE Can Carry any Fdeas, as it vere, berond it selF, Or, at least, lo0k BC.
- vondic, to sec hoir it sands in contormitr to any otter. When the
- Mind so considers onc thins, that it does, as it vere, brins itto, and set
- it by anocher, and carry irs vie from one to eother: This is, as thc
- Wordsimpore, Relation and Respect; and the Denominations siven to
- policive Things, intimating char Respect, and servins a5 Martes 10 lead
- the Thouehes beyond the subjeet it self denominated, to somethins di
- Cinct trom it, are what e cai Relarives; and the Thinos (0 brouoht
- together, Relared. Thus Wrhen theMind considers Cajus, a5 such a pO-
- sitire Being, it tatres nochins into that Idea, buc what realsy exilts in
- Cajus: 2. 8. When Iconliderhim, 25 a Ntan, Phave noching in my Mind,
- but the complex Ldea of the species, Man: So likewile, When I lay Cajus
- is a White Man, Phare nothine but the bare consideration ot Man, Wrho
- trath that Whrite colour. Bur whien I give Cajus thename Jusband, I in-
- timate lome ocher person; and when l sire him che name Trhiter, I in-
- timare lome other thing in boch cases my Thouxht is led eo somethino
- berond Cajus, and there are tro chinos brouphe into consideration. And
- Tince ans Idea, Whettier simple, or complex, mas be the occation, why etio
- Mind thus bringo. tro chinss together, and, as it vere, talces a view of
- them at once, though still considered as diltinet: therelore any of our
- Ideas, may be thetoundlation ot Relarion, as in the aborementioned in.
- Cance, the Contraet, and Ccremons ot Marriage vith sempronia, is the
- occation ot he Denomination, or helation ot Hlusband; and thecolour
- Wrhite, the occation Wrhy heis Baid whiter than Frec.Ctone.
- B. 2. Thele, and cho like Relations, expressed by relative terms, that
- have others ansiverine them, vith a reciprocal intimation as Father, and
- Son; Bisger, and Lels; Cause, and PAect, are very obvious to cvery onc,
- ard every Body et tirst Boht perceires the Relation. Por Father, and
- Son; FTusband, and Wite, and luch other correlatire terms, seem (0 near-
- li tobelons one to anotter, and, through Custom, do lo readily chime,
- and ansiver onc anocher in Peoples plemories, that uxon the namine ot
- cirler otihem, che Thouslus are presenely carried bezond che Thins lo
- MaMC;
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 150. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0166?run=74