An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 169

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3. aeab and l Bantasticat laba
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6. Of Real and Phancasticat 1de25.
7. 8. L. P D Fsies Wottat re have already mentioned, concernins Ldeas, Other
8. Conliderationsbelons tothem, inrelerenceto things trom Wrhence
9. ches are talcen, or whichthes mas besuppoled ro represent; and thus,
10. chink, thes mas come under a chircesole distinction; and are,
11. First, Kicher real, or phancaltical.
12. Secondly, Adequate, or inadequate.
13. Thiraly, Truo, Or Falsc.
14. First, By real Ideas, Imean such as tave a Foundation in Nature
15. such as have a Conformits wich thereal Beins, and Existence oF Things,
16. or with cheir ArchetrDes. Phantasticat or chymerical, I Call such as have
17. no Foundation in Nature, nor have any Contormiey wich chat rea.
18. lity oE Beins, to Which they are taciely reterrd, as to their Archerypes.
19. IFire examine the several forrs oF Ldeas betore mentioned, we Mall find,
20. that,
21. 6. 2. First Oux simple Tdeas are alt reatu all apree tothe realitr oE
22. chinrs. Not thatthey are all oF them the ImasCS, Or representations
23. OF What does exist, the contrary Whereos, in all bur the primary Oualities
24. ot Bodies, hath been alreads Bheved. Bur choush Whicenels and Cold-
25. nessare no more in Snorr, than Pain is; vet thole Pdeas oF Whiceness
26. and Coldness, Pain, (5c. Deins in us the FHects oP Povers in Things ith
27. outus, ordained by our Maker, to produce in us, sueh Senlatiors; ther
28. are real Ideas in us, Wherebr re distinsuistr the Oualities, that are really
29. in chinss chemlelves. For these several Appcarances, beins designed 10
30. De the Marks, Wherebs re are toknor, and distinguistr Things ve have
31. todo wich; our Ideas doas ell serre us to that purpole, and areas real
32. distinonisting Characters, Whether ther be only constant FHects, Or
33. else exaet Relemblances oflomething in the things themselves: the rea-
34. liey ling in chat lteady correspondence, they hare rich che distinet Con-
35. Stiturions oE real Beings. But Whether they ansiver to these Constitutions,
36. 25 to Causes or Parterns, it matrers nor; it suffices, thac they are constant.
37. ly procuced by chem. And thus our simple Fdeas are allreal and true, DC.
38. cause thes anliver and agree to thole Povers oF Thinss, Wrhich produce
39. them in our Minds, that beines all chat is requilite ro makre them real.
40. qnd noc Actious at Pleasure. For in simple Ideas, (as has been Mewed,
41. theMind is Wholly contined to the Operation oF things uxonit; and can
42. matce ro it sel(no simple Idea, more than what ic has received.
43. 6. 3. Thoush themtind De wholly passive, in respeet ofits simple Ideas:
44. Vet, Ichink, we mar lar, it is noclo, in respeet ot its complex Ideas: For
45. those beins Combinations ot simple Ideas, putcogether, and united under
46. one general Name; ris plain, char the Mind otMan ules lome kind ot Liber-
47. er, in Formins thole complex Ideas. TTor elle comes itto pals, that onc
48. Maris Idea ot Gold, or fultice, is different tromanochers: But because he
49. lesput in, or lele out ofhis, some simple Idea, Which the other haS nOF.
50. The Ouestion then is, Which ot these arc real, ard Which barely imaoiparo
51. Combinations: What Collections agree tothe reality ot Things, and what
52. not: And tothis ICaY, Phat
53. 6. 4. Secondly, Mixed Modes and Relations, havins no other realier.
54. but wlat rhes have in che Minds oF Men, there is nothins more requi-
55. rec

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 169. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0185?run=74