An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 166

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1. Distinct and Confused Ideas.
2. BOCk
3. a TOrE OF Thines, or any one particular Fhins, distnie From all others, the
4. complex Idea he annexes to that Name, is the more diltinct, the more
5. particular the Ldeas are, and the greater and more determinate the num-
6. ber and order ofthem is, irhereot it is made up. For themore it has oF
7. thele, the more has it sill oF the perceirable differences, Whereby it is
8. Kepe separate and distincet trom alt Ideas belongins to other Names, even
9. those that approach nearest to it, and thereby all contusion ith them is
10. avoided.
11. B. FF. Confusion, maleins it a difficulty eo separate tro Things that
12. Mould De separated, concerns alvays ruo Ideas: andthose most, hichmost
13. approach one another. Whenerer theretore ve suspect any Idea to be
14. confuled, e must examine irhat other it is in danger to be contounded
15. wich, or Which it cannor easils be separated trom; and that will alrays
16. be found an Ldea belongins to another Name, and (o Mould be a different
17. Thing, trom wrhich vet ic is not sufticienely distinet; beiris cither the
18. Tame ithie, or malcing a pare oFic, Or, at least, as provertr call d by thae
19. Name, as the other it is ranted under; and (0 kecps not that difference
20. From that ocher Idea, erhich the different Names import.
21. 5. F2. This, Tthinke, is the consusion prover to Ideas; Which still carries
22. rith it a secret reterence to Names. At least ilchere be any other contusi
23. on oF Ideas, this is that irhich most of all dilorcers Mens Thoughts and
24. Discourles: Pdeas, as ranked under Names, beins thole chat for the most
25. Part Men reason oF within themselres, and alvays those wtich ther com
26. municate about, wich ochers. And theretore irhere there are supposed
27. tvo ditterent Ideas, martred by tro different Names, Which are noc 25
28. distinguistrable as the Sounds that Rtand for eliem, chere never tails to bo
29. consation: And ihere ans ideas are distinet, as the Ideas oF those tvo
30. Sounds ther are martced By, there can be between them no confusion. The
31. vay to prevent it is eo collect and unire into our complex Idea, as precile-
32. IY as is possible, al thole Ineredients, Whereby it is differenced From o.
33. thers, and to them lo united in a determinate number and order, apply
34. steadily the same Name. But this neither accommodatine Nens eale
35. Or vanier, or servins any desion, but that of natced Fruth, Which is nOt
36. alivays the thins aimed at, such exactnels, is rather to be wisthred, than
37. hroped for. And since the loole application ot Nlames, to uncertain, and
38. almost no Ideas, serres both to cover our omn gnorance, as vell asto
39. perplex and contound others, which soes for Learnins and Superiority in
40. Knomledge, it is no monder thar molt Men Mould ulc it themselres, rhilst
41. they complain of it in others. Though yet, L chink, no small part ofthe
42. contution, co beFound in theNotions otMen, mistt, by care and ingenuiti,
43. beavoided; vet Iam tar trom chinting it every where iltul. Some Ideas
44. are (o complex, and made ux of (0 many parts, that the Memorr does
45. not ealily retain the very lame precile Comibination ot simole Ideas, under
46. one Name; much lels are ve able constantis to divine Por what precile
47. complex Idea such a Name Bands in anocher Mans usc oF it. From the
48. ArstOsthese, Fotlons contusion in a Mans orn Realoninos and Opinions
49. richin himselts trom the latter, Frequent contusion in discourling and arou-
50. ing ith ochers. Dut having more at large treated ot Words, their De-
51. Fects and Abuses inthe follorins BoOk, I Mallhere lay no more of It.
52. 6. F3. Our complex Ideas beins made ux of Collections, and lo varietr
53. oElimple ones, may accordinsly be very clear and distinet in one part, and
54. very obscure and confused in another. In a Man Whro speals oF à Chiliade.
55. ron, Or a Body ot a thouland lides, the Idea ot the tioure may be verr
56. contuled, chousli that ot ihe Number Berery dictind. 1o tliat ho bcires
57. abt

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 166. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0182?run=74