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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 173

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  1. Adequare and Inadequate Iaeas
  2. 6 Z. Therelore phere complex Ideas of Modes, When thez are refer.
  3. bythemind, and intended eo correspond eo the Ideas in the Mind ot
  4. some other intellisent Beins, expressed by che Names, we apply tothem,
  5. they may be very deticient, irone, and inadequate. Because they agreo
  6. noc to thar, Wrhich the Mind deligns to be their Archetrpo, and Pattern:
  7. In Wrhichrespect onlr, any Idea oFModes can be vrons, impertect, or
  8. inadequate. And on this account, our Ldeas oF mixed Modes are the most
  9. liable to be faults ol any other: but this resers more eo proper. SpCalIME
  10. chan unomins riglt.
  11. 6. 5. ThirdlY. What Ideas we have of Substances, Ttave above Bemed: No
  12. thole Fdeas have in theMtind a doublerelerence: r. Sometimes ther are
  13. reterred ro a suppoled real Fssence of each Species oF Things. 2. Some-
  14. times they are enty delignd eo be Dictures and Reprelentations in the
  15. Mind, oFThings that do exist, by Ideas thac are discoverable in them. In
  16. boch ehich ways, thele Copies oftheir Originals, and Archetspes, are
  17. impersect and inadequate.
  18. First, It is ulual for nen to makre the Names of Subltances, sand for
  19. Thines, as suppoled tohave certain real Rssences, Wrhereby ther are ot this
  20. orthat Species: And Names Canding for nothine but the Ideas, that are in
  21. MensMinds, they mult consequently reter their Ideas to luch real F Nen-
  22. ces, as to their Archets Des. ThatMen (especially such as hrave been bredup
  23. in the Learnins causlit in this part ofthe WOrld) do suppole certain spe-
  24. citick FPlences ot Substances, Which each Indiridual in its several tindis
  25. made contormable to, and partakes ol, is (0 tar trom necdins proot, that
  26. it will bethoushe stranse il any one Mould do otherwise. And chusthoy
  27. Ordinarils apply the specitiek Names, they rante particular Substances un
  28. der, 1o Thines, as distinguistred by such specitick real F Sences. Who is
  29. there almost, wrho vould not tale it amils, it it Mould be doubted, whe.
  30. cherhe calldhimselF Man, with any other meanins chan as havins thereal
  31. Fllence ot a Man: And yet il rou demand, What chosereal LNenCeSare, tis
  32. Dlain Men are ignorant, andunom them not. Fromwhence it sollos, that
  33. the Ldeas cher have in their Minds, beino reterred to real FsenceS aS Ar-
  34. Chetypes trhich are untnomn, must be so tar trom beine adequate, thac
  35. ther cannor be supposed to be any representation ot them at all. The
  36. complex Ideas we have of Substances, are, as has bcen Mered, cerrain Col
  37. lections of simple Ideas, that hare been observed or luppoled constanty
  38. to exist rogertier. Bur such a complex Idea cannot De the real Fissence oF
  39. any Subltance: For then the Properties re discover in thac Body, vould
  40. depend on that complex Idea, aud be deducible trom it, and their neces
  41. lary connexion wichi it De lnorn; as all Properties of a Friansle depend
  42. on, and, as tar as they are discorerable, are deducible trom the complex
  43. Idea oFthree Lines, includins a Space. Buc ic is plain, that in our com-
  44. Plex Ideas et Subltances, are noc contained such Ideas, on whieh all the
  45. Other Oualicies, that are eo be Found in them, do depend. Thecommon
  46. Idea Men have ot Tron, is a Bodi of a certain Colour, Weioht, and ITarda
  47. ness; anda Property chacthes look on as belonsins to it, is malleablenels.
  48. Burvet this Properer has no necessary connexion with that complex Ldea
  49. nor any part ot ic: and there is no more realon to thinki, that malleable.
  50. nels devends on that Colour, Weiste, and Hardness, than that that C0.
  51. lour, or that Weislu, depends on its malleablenels. And vet though we
  52. lnor nochins oF thele real Fsences, there is nothins more ordinarr, than
  53. that Men hould attribute the lores of Things to sueh Essences. The Par-
  54. ticular parcel oF Matter which malses the Rins lhare on my Finser, is
  55. cormordis, by most Men, suppoled ro have a real Esence, Wherety ix is
  56. 60d.

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 173. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0189?run=74