An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 165

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1. otinet and confused Ideas.
2. 5.8. Secondly, Another desault, ehich mates our Ideas contusec, is, When
3. choush the particulars that malce up any idea, are in number enousl:
4. Vet tler are so jumbled tosether, that it is not caluls discernable, Wrherher
5. ic more belonos to the Name chatis siven it, than to any other. There
6. isnothins proverer to makre us conceire this Contusion, than a Torr ot
7. Dictures usually Bemn, as surprizing Picces of Art, Whrerein the Colours.
8. as ther are laid by the Pencil on che Table it seIF, martrout very odd and
9. unusual Fioures, and have no discernable order in their Position. This
10. Draughe, thus madeup oF parts, Wherein no Symmetry nor Order appears
11. is, in ic selt, no more a contused Thins, than che ricture ot a cloudy Sty:
12. Wrherein chouxh chere be as lictle order of Colours, or Figures to betound,
13. vet no bodu chinus it a confuled Picture. Whac is it chen, that matres it
14. be thouoht contulec, since the vane ot Symmetry does noc: as ic is plain
15. ic does not; for another Drauehe made, barely in imitation ofthis, could
16. noc be called confused: l ansiver, Thac which makces it be thouxht con-
17. fused, is the applrins it to lome Name, torhich it docs no more discer.
18. nabiy belone; than to some oiher; v. 8. When it is laid to be the Pi.
19. Cture oF a Man, Or Caesar, then any one with reason connes it consu-
20. sed: because it is not discernable, in that cate, to belone more tothe
21. name Man, or C aesar, than tothe name Baboon, or Pomper; wrtrich arc
22. suppoled to stand For different Ideas, trom those signitied by Man, Or
23. Caesar. Bur Wlen a cylindrical Mirrour, placed righe, hath reduced thole
24. irregular Lines on the Table, into cheir due order and provortion, then che
25. Contution ceales, and chePye presently sccs, that it is a Man, or C aesar;
26. i. e that it belones cothole Names; and chat it is sufticienely dictingui-
27. Mable From a Baboon, Or Pomper; i. e. Trom the Ideas Signitied By chole
28. Names. Just thus it is ich our Ldeas, ertrich are, as it rvere, chelictures
29. OF Things. Noone os thele mental Draughes, hoverer the parrs areput
30. together, can be called contused, (For chey are plainly discernible as thiey
31. are,) eill it beranked under some ordinary Name, to which it cannot bo
32. discernedto belons, any more chan it does to lome other Name, ot an al-
33. lorred ditterent lionitication.
34. 6. 9. Thiralr, A third desect that trequently gires the name ot Contu-
35. sed, to our Ideas, is Whren anr one of them is uncertain, and undetermined.
36. Thus we mar obserre Men, WhonorForbearins ro uletheordinary Words
37. of their Languaxe, till thes have learn d cheir precise signification, change
38. ehe Ldea, they matre this or thar term Rand for, almolt as olten as they ule
39. it. IIC thac does this, out ol uncertaint of irhrat he Mould lcave out, or
40. Dut into his Idea oE Church, or Idolatry, every time he thintes ol cither,
41. and holdsnot Acadrro any one precise Combination ot Ldeas, that mates
42. it up, is saidro have a contused idea of Idolatry, or theChurch: Thouoh
43. ehis be sill For the lame realon thac the former, viz. Because a mutable Idea
44. (iF We will allon it ro be one Ldea) cannot belons to one Name, rather
45. chananocher; and soloses chediltinction, cat diltinet Names are desioned
46. FOr.
47. 8. F0. By Wrhathas Been said, we may observe hor much Names, a5
48. supposed stcady signs oF Things, and by cheir difference to Aand For-
49. and keep Thines dictinct, char inthemselves are different, are the occasion
50. if denominatine Ideas distinet or confused, by a secret and unoblervedrete
51. rence, themind matres oF its Ldeas to luch Names. This, pertaps, will De
52. suller understood, after Whar IPay oF Nords, in the Third BOOH, has BCen
53. read and considered. But Wwithone catrine notice oF uch a reterence et Ideas
54. to distinct Names, as the siens of distinet Thinss, it will be hard to lay
55. urhat a contused idea is. And cheretore when a Man deliens, by any Name

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 165. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0181?run=74