An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 162

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1. Morat Relation.
2. ale Nords, Candine For Relations, is nothins but fome limple Ideas, or
3. Collections ot simple Ideas, compared one with anocher. This is (0 mani
4. felt in that Cort called proportional, that nothine canbermore. For when
5. 2NTan Cay5, Foney is (reeter chan Wax, it is plain, that his Thouglts in
6. ehis Relation, terminate in chis simple Ldea, Sircetness, Whieh is equally.
7. true oFall the rest; thouoh, wrhere ther are compounded, or decom-
8. pounded, the simple Ldeas they are made up oF, are, pertraps, seldom ta-
9. ben notice oF. v. 8. Whenthe Nord Father is mentioned: First, There
10. is meant that particular ot. Species or collectire Idea, Signified
11. by the Word Man; Secondly, Thole sensible simple Ideas, signitied
12. by the Word Generation; And, Thiraly, The FHects oF it, and
13. all the simple Ldeas, Signihed by the Word Child. S0 the Word Friend,
14. beins talsen for a Man, irho loves, and is reads to do sood ro another,
15. has all chose Follorrins Ideas tothe makins oF it up. First, aII ttre sim
16. Dle Ideas, comprehended in the Nord Man, or intelligent Being. Se-
17. condiy, the Ldea oFLove. Thirdly, The Idea oF Readinels, or Dispostion.
18. Fourchly, The Idea oF Action, Wrhich is any kind of Thouoht, or Motion.
19. Fifchli, Thc Idea Ot Ciood, Which lionities auy thino that may advance
20. his Flappiness; and terminates at last, is examined, in particular lim
21. Dle Ideas, Ot which the Nord Good in general, signities any one; but il
22. removed trom all simple Ldeas quite, it lignities nochins at aII: And thus
23. als0, allMoral Words terminate at last, thoushu, perhaps, more remoteli
24. in a Collection oF simple Ldeas: the immediare signitication oF Relative
25. Words, beins very olten ocher suppoled hnomn Relations; Wrhich, il tra-
26. ced one to anocher, sill end in simple Ideas.
27. 5. 29. Secondly, Fhat in Relations, we have FOr the most part, il nOE
28. alirays, as clear a Notion of the Relation, asve have of those simple Ideas
29. Wherein it is founded: Acreement or Dilagreement, Whercon Relation
30. depends, beins Thinss, Whereofre hare commonly as clear Ideas, as oF
31. ans ocher wtatloerer: it beins butthe distinguittins simple Ldeas, or
32. their Deorees one trom another, without which, re could have no di
33. Stinct Hnomledse at all. For if Phave a clear Idea OF Svectness, Light,
34. Or Lxtension, Thare too, of equal or more, or lels, of cach ot these: II.
35. bno Wrhat ic is For one Nan io be born of a Woman, viz. Sempronia,
36. lnor what it isfor anocher Mtan to beborn ot thelame Woman, Sempro-
37. nia; and so have as clear a Norion of Brothers, as oF Births, and, perhaps,
38. clearer. lor if l beliered, that Sempronia disged Zirus out olthePariler.
39. Bed, (as ther usc totell Children,) and thereby became his Mottier; and
40. chac alcerrards in the same manner, Me dissed Cajus out ot the Parller.
41. Bed, Phad as clear a Notion oF the Relation OF BrOFherS BCEVCCH FheMm, a5
42. if Ihad all the Still of a Midrite; theNorion that the samC Woman COn
43. tributed, as Mocher, equally to their Births, (thoushr P evere ignorant, or
44. mistaken in themanner ot it,) beins that on irhich I grounded the Rela-
45. tion; and that thes agrecd inthat Circumstance of Birth, let it be wtrat
46. it rill. The comparins them then in their descent tromthe Tame Person,
47. Wrichouc hnorins the particular Circumstances of that descent, is enous
48. to found my Nocion ot thcirhavins, or not havine the Relation oF BrO-
49. thers. But thouxh the Ideas ot particular Relations, are capable of being
50. as clear and distinct in ehe Minds oF those, who ill duls consider them,
51. as those of mixed Modes, and more determinate than thole oF Subltances;
52. vec the Wames belongins to Relation, are olten of as doubrtul, and in-
53. certain Signification, as thole os substances, or mixed Modes; and much
54. more than those ot simple Ldeas. Because Relatire Words, beins the Marlis
55. oschis Comparison, Wlietis madte ontus by Wens Fhonelilo, and is an
56. Idea

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 162. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0178?run=74