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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 153

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  1. Relation.
  2. most considerable Relations that e have anz notion of, and some that
  3. scem to bethe most remote trom sense or Refection; Wrhich vec will ap-
  4. pear tohare their ldeas from thence, and that the Norions re have ot
  5. chem, are buc certain simple Ldeas, and (0 originally derired trom Sense
  6. or Reflection.
  7. 8. 2O. Fourthly, Fhat Relation beins the considerine oF one thing with
  8. another, Wtrich is extrinsical to it, it is erident, thac aI WN ords, that ne-
  9. cellarils inter, and lead the Mind to any other Fdeas, thian are supposed
  10. realls to exist in that thins, to which thie Word is applicd, are relative
  11. Words; V. G. A Man BlackE, Merry, Thouxhetul, ThirAtY, ABGEY, Fx
  12. tended; thele, and the likee, are all absolute, becaule ther neither signitie
  13. nox intimare any thing, but What docs, or is supposed really to exist in
  14. the Dian thus denominated: Buc Fatter, Brocher, Rino, HIusband, BIaC
  15. Her, Merrier, C5c. are Nords, Which, together with the thine ther deno-
  16. minate, imply also fomethins else separate and exterior to the existence ot
  17. thatchins.
  18. G. FF. Flaving laid doun these Premiles concernine Relation in general-
  19. TBaII nor proccedto er in Comeinstances, how ail che Ldeas ere have
  20. Ot Relation are made up, as the others are, only oF simple Ideas; and that
  21. they all, hoir resined, or remote from sense loever they seem, terminate at
  22. last in simple Ideas. TAiall begin with rhe most comprehensive Relation,
  23. Wherein all thines chat do, or can exist, are concerned; and that is the
  24. Relation oF Cause and PHect. The Ldea Whercot, how derived trom the
  25. tro Fountains of all our Rnowledse, sensation and Reftection, I Mall in
  26. the next place consider.
  27. 2+ 12 L. XXV1
  28. D(ause and Fiffect, and other Relations.
  29. S. L. TN chenotice, Thacour Senses take oP the constant Vicissitude OF LHII
  30. e cannot but observe, that several parricular, both Oualities, ance
  31. Substances beginto exist; ave that they receire this cheir Exiltence, trom
  32. the due Application and Opetation oF lome other Being. From this Ob.
  33. servation, ve get our Ideas ot cause and Fiffect. That irtich produces ans
  34. Cimpre or complex Idea, we cehote by thegeneral Name Cause; andthat
  35. Wtienis produced, sffect. Lius finding, that inchat Substance wrhich we
  36. Cal Nax Fluiditr, Wrhich is a Cmple Ldea that WaS nOE in IE BCtOrO, 15
  37. conllantli produced by the spplication ot a certain derrec of Hleat, ne
  38. call ese simple Idca ot FICat, III celation to Fluidier in Wax, the C’aule ot
  39. complek Ldea, contiltins ot a Collection oF simple Ideas, quire ditterent
  40. trom chat complex Ldea, Wilen we cali Nood; e consider Fire, in re-
  41. lacion to AMeS, a5 Cause, and the ABeS; aS F. Hect. So that Whatever is
  42. conlicered by us, to conduce or operate, to the producine any parti
  43. Mode, Wrhich did nor belore exist, haththereby in our Mindsthe relation
  44. ot a Caule, and so is denominate d By US.
  45. it; and Fluidiey the Ffect. S0 also Anding thac the Substance, Wood.
  46. Whicit IS a certain Collection ot lten Ideas, (0 called, Will by the Appli-
  47. cation of Fire, Deturned into anorster Substance, caIled AMeS; i. e. anOther
  48. cular simple Idea, or Collection of simple Ideas, Whecher Substance, Or

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 153. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0169?run=74