An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 171

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2. Adequate anc b qucbe Loe a.
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4. Of Adequate and Inadequate Ideas.
5. 8. 1.
6. our real Ideas, fome ate Adlequare, and some are Inaclequate.
7. Those Icall adequate, Which perfectly reprelent ctiole Arche:
8. tves, Which the Minid suppolesthem tahen trom; Wrhich it intendsthem
9. tostand For; ard to Which it reters them. Lnadequare Ideas are suchr, whict
10. are BuE a partial, or incomplear represehtation OE FhOle ArChery DeS tO
11. Wtich they are reterred. Opon wrtrich accoune it is plairi,
12. 5. 2. First, That al our simple Ideas are adequare. Becduse beins no-
13. thins bur ihe effects oF certain Povers in Thinss, futed and ordainedbis
14. GOD, to produce Sch Sensations in uS, they CannOt Dut be Correspon
15. dent, and adequate ro those Povers: And ire are sure thiey aoree tothe
16. realier of Thiriss. For il Sugar produce in is the Ideas wtrich We calI
17. Whiteness, and Screctnels, re are ture there is a porver in Sucar to pro-
18. diée those Ideas in our Mlinds, or elle cher could noc have been produi
19. ced. And locach Sensation ansverins FhC POrVEK THaL OperateS On any OF
20. our Senles, the Ldea so produced, is a real Idea, (and not a fictior ol the
21. Mind,) Which has no porrer toproduce ans simple ldeasand cannot butbe
22. adequare, sirice it oustut only ro ansiver chat vover: and so all simple
23. Tdeas are adequate. Tistrue, the Thinos producins in us these simplo
24. Ideas, are bur ser of them denominated by us, as il ches iere ouly the
25. causes ofthem; but as ilthole Ideas ere real Beings in them. For thouxh
26. Fire be cald paintul to the Fouchu, Whereby ic lignitiedche porver of pro-
27. ducins in us the Idea oF Pain: yet it is denominated also LishE, and FIOE;
28. is il Light, andFleat, ere really somethins in the Fire, more than a
29. porver to exeite thele Ideas in us; and theretore are called Oualities ) in
30. Orofthe Fire. But these beines nothino, in truth, buc porvers to excite luctu
31. Ideas inus, mult, in that sense, be understood, When I speak ot secundaris
32. Oualities, as beins in Thines; or oftheir Ideas, as beine in che Objects, chat
33. excire them in us. Such rars of speattine, thouxli accommodated tothe
34. vuloar Notions, Wittiout which, one cannot be ell understood; ret
35. truls ciynitie nochins. but those Povers, Whuch are in Things, to excite
36. certain Serilations or Ideas in us. Since vere there no tut Oroansto receivo
37. the imprestions Fire makres on the Sight and Touch; nor aMind joined to
38. chose Organs, to reccire the ideas ot Lislit and Eleat, by those impressi
39. ons trom che Fire, or che sun, there ould yet benomore Lisht, or Ileat
40. in the Norld, Thanthere ould be Pain, il there ere no sensible Crea:
41. cure to scel it, thoush the sun Bould continue just as it isnor, and MOUnE
42. Arna Alame higher than ever it did. Solidier, and tixtention, and the
43. termination ofit, Figure, ith Motion and Rest, Whereot e have the
44. Ideas, rould be really in the World asthey arc, Whether there vere any
45. sensible Being to perccivethem, orno: And cherclore thole we havo rea-
46. son to loolc on, as the real modificarions oF Matter; and luch as are the
47. excirins Causes oF all our various senlations trom Bodies. But this be-
48. ins an sinquiry nor belongins to this place, L Mall enter no farther into
49. it, but proceed to Mer irhat complex Ideas are adequate, and What
50. ROE.

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 171. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0187?run=74