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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 174

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  1. Adequate and Inadequate Ideas.
  2. Gold; and from wrhence those Oualities AoW, whieh TEnd in ic, viz. itspecu-
  3. liar, Colour, Weigh, FTardness, Fusibiliei. Fixcdness, and change oF Colour
  4. axon a Dighe touch oF Mercuri, (50. This Fence, From Which al thése
  5. Properties AoW, When lenquire inito it, and scarch atter it, Iplairly per
  6. ccire leantiot diseorer: the Farthest Iean s0; is ontr to pretume, that ic
  7. beins nothine but Body, its real Fssence, or internal Constitution, on
  8. Whichchese Gualities depend, can be nothine but the Fisure, Size, and
  9. Corinexion of its solid Parts; ot neither ot wrhich, Iharins any distinct
  10. perception at all; Pcari have no Idea oF its real Fssence, irhich is the cause
  11. Ehat it has that particular Mining yellonness; a greater eiohe than any
  12. thing Pkrio oF ehe same bulk; and a hrnels to have its Colour changed
  13. by the touchi of Ouicksilver. IFany one wrill lay, that the real Essence.
  14. ard interrial Constitution, on erhich those Properties depend, is not the
  15. Fisure, Sizc. and Aransement or Connexion ofirs solid Parts, but somethins
  16. else, cald its parricular form; Jam Parther trom having any Idea oF its
  17. realF Nence, than Pvas belore. ForIhave an Idea of Figure, Size, and Si-
  18. tuation of solid Parrs in general, thoush Ihare none ot the parricular Fis
  19. sure, Size, Or Puttins together oP Parts, Whereby the Qualities abore men-
  20. tioned are produced; Wrtrich Oualities I And in that particular parcet ot
  21. Matter thar is on my finger, and not in anocher parcel ot Macter wieh
  22. erhich Icut the Pen Ierrice ith. But when lam told, that lomethins
  23. belides the Figure, Size, and Posture os the solid Parts olthat Body, is its
  24. Fissence, Lomechins called substantial form, OE that, l consels, I have no
  25. Idea at all, but orly of the Pound Form: Which is far enouch trom an
  26. Idea oFits real FPence, or Constitution. The like ignorance as T have
  27. OFthe reat FPence oEthis particular Substance, I have also oF the real Fs
  28. Tence oFall other natural ones: OF Which Fssences, I consess, I haveno
  29. distinet ideas at ail; and l am apt to suppole, othuers, when ther examine
  30. cheir omn Rnomledge, ill find in themlelres, in this onc point, the same
  31. FOrE OFIGMOTaNCC.
  32. 8. 7. No then, when Nen apply eothis particular parcel OF Matter
  33. on my Finger, a general Name already in usen, and denominate it Cold,
  34. Dothey noc ordinarilr, or are ther not understood to sire it that NamC,
  35. as Delonoins to a particular Species ot Bodies, havino a real internal sis
  36. sence; Dy haring ol which Fssence, this particular Substance comes to
  37. beot that Species, and tobe called by thac Name: IF it be(0, a5 it is
  38. plain ic is, the name by ertich Things are martced, as having tMaL F. F
  39. tenee, must be reterred primarily to that Fssence; and consequentr the
  40. Idea to irtich chatname is siven, must be reterred also to that RssencC,
  41. and beintendecto represent it: Which Flence, Lince ther who louse the
  42. Names, lnom noc, their Ideas of Substances must De al inadequate in that
  43. respect, as not containins in them that real Fssence, rhich the Mind in
  44. tends ther Bould.
  45. 5. 8. Secondlr, Fhose who, neglectins that aseless Suppontion ot un
  46. tenovn real Fssences, Whereby thes are distinguisted, endeavour to copr
  47. the Substances, thar exist in the Worid, by putring together tne Ldeas Ol
  48. those sensible Oualities, Wrhich are Pound co existing in them, thoueh they
  49. comemuch nearer a libenels otthem, than those Whoimagine ther know
  50. not What real Specifick Fsences: vet ther arrive noc at pertectly adequate.
  51. Ideas ofthole Substances, ther would thus copr into their Minds: nor de
  52. those Copies, exactr and tully, contain all thac is to be sound in their Ar-
  53. ChetPCS. Because those Onalities, and Poers, et Substances, Whereot
  54. e malie cheir complex Ideas, are (0 many and various, that no Man s
  55. complex Laca contains ihem all. Zhat our abract ldeas ot Subltanees,
  56. e
  57. BC

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 174. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0190?run=74