An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 163
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- Ctap. XX
- III.
- joat iat consusea ide
- Idea ontr in MenS Minds, Men frequeney apply ehem to different Com
- parisons of Thines, accordins eo their omn Imaginations, Which do not
- alvays correspond with those of others, ulins the lame Names.
- 5. 20. Thiraly, Phat in thele T CalI Moral Relations, Phare a true NO:
- tion of Relarion, by comparino the Action with the Rule, Whether the
- Rule betrue, or False. For it Imeature any thins by a Tard, I HnOW
- rhether the chins Imeature be longer, or Morter, than that suppoled
- Tard, though, perhaps, the Lard I mealure by, be not exactls the Stan-
- dard: Which, indecd, is another tinquirr. For thoughthe Rule Be erro-
- neous, and Imistakre in it: yet che agreement, or disagreement ot that
- Which I compare wich it, is erideney bnomn by me; wherein consits
- my knomledse oE Relarion. Thoush mealurins by a Wrong Rule, P MaII
- thereby be brouxht to judge amils ot its moral Rectitude; Decause I have
- tricd it by thac ertrich is nor the true Rule: but am not mistatien in the
- relation char action bears to chat Rule I compare it to, Which is aeree.
- ment, or dilaercement.
- CHAP. AANIII.
- Of Cum aita Oosere, Distinet and Consused Ideas.
- Aving Mewed the Original ot our Ideas, and considered the
- leveral loris olchem, as Simple and Complex; and Bewed
- the difference in Complex ones, betrixt those ofModes, Relations, and
- Substances, all Which, Ithink, is necessary to be donc by any onc, Who
- rould acquaint himselsthroughily with the progrels ot the Mind, in its
- Apprehension and unoledsse ot Thines, it will, perhaps, be thouxht I
- have drelt lone enoush upon the Fxaminarion of Ldeas. I mult, never-
- chelels, crare leare ro otter lome sew other Considerations concernine
- them. Ttic firstis, Thatlome areclear, and ottiers obseure; fome distinct,
- andorhers confused.
- 8. 2. Perception ol the Mind, beine most apely explained by Nords re
- latins ro the Sight, We all belt underltand irhat is meant by Clear, and
- Obscure in our ideas, by restectins on what e call Clear and Obscure
- in ehe Objects oF Sight. Light beins char which discovers to us visible
- Objects, ve sire the name oiObscure, ro chat, which is not placed in a
- Light, sufficient to discorer minutely to us theFisure and Colours, whick
- are obserrable in it, and wtrich, in a berter Lizhr, would he discernable.
- Thusour simple Ideas are clear, When they are such as the Objects chem.
- selves, trom irhence they rere tatien, did, in a Well. ordered Senlation
- Or Perception, prelent them. Whilst the Memory retains ehem thus, and
- can produce themso, tothemind, When ever it has occation to consider
- ehem, ther are clear Ideas. So Par as they cither vant ans thins oF that
- original Fxactnels, or tave lost any of their Airst Fretnels, and are, a5 it
- vere, taded or tarnistred by Time, (o Far arether obscure. Complex Ideas,
- as tliey are made up of Simple: ones lo ther are clear wrhen the Ideas,
- thac eo co their Compolition, arc clear; and the Number and Order ot
- chole simple Ideas, chat are che lngredients ol any Complex one, is deter-
- minate and certaim.
- f. 3. The cause of Obscurity in simple Ideas, secus ove clister au
- Orxans; or very Rislit and cranliens imprections made by ihe Objects:
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 163. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0179?run=74