An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 177

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1. True and False
2. C HI A P. AAAI.
3. Of True and False Ideas.
4. Fone Lhand FalMood, belons, in Proprierr oE Specch, onl
5. to Propositions; yet Ldeas are oltentimestermed true or false
6. (as What Wordsare there thatare noc uled with great Laritude, and ittr
7. Tomie deriation trom their Arict and prover Significations,) ThousM,
8. thinte, that irten Ldeas chemselres are termed true or Fale, tlere is siII
9. Torie sceret or tacit Propolutior, wrHich is che Foundation oF eliat Denomi
10. tation: 2s we stiall sec, il ire examine the particular Occalions, pherein
11. ther come to De called erue or False. In all ertrich, We Piail And some kind
12. ot Astirmation, or Negatior, Whichi is che Reason oF tliat Denomination.
13. For our Ldeas, beine nothirs bui bare Appearances or Perceptions in our
14. Minds, cannor propertr and simply in chemselves De laid to De true Or
15. false, no more than a sinsle Name ot ans thirs, can be laid to betrue or
16. false.
17. 5. 2. Indeed, borh Ldeas and Words, maybe Paid to be true in a metaphysi-
18. cat Sense oFtheWord Fruth; asallother l’hinss, thatany ray exist, are said
19. to betrue; i. e. really to besuch as they exilt. Thoush in Thinsscalled truc,
20. even in thac Sense, there is, perhaps, a sccret reterence ro our Ideas, l00k e
21. upon as the Scandards oF that Fruth, which amounes to a mentalPropol.
22. tion, thoriph it be ulually noc cakten notice of
23. 5. 3. But tis nor in thac meraphy sical Sense of Truch, irhieh re en-
24. quire tiere, irtieri ive examiné, Whrether our Pdeas are capable oF being
25. true or Palse; bur in cheriore ordinary Accepration oF those WVords: And
26. (OTTaY, that the Ideas in our Minds, beins only (o manz Perceptions, or
27. Appearances there, none of them are False. The Idea ot a Centaur, ha-
28. viris ho more Falshood in ic, utien ic appears in our Minds; than the
29. Name Centaur has Falstood in it, irhen it is pronounced by our Mouths,
30. OrvritteM On PaPET. FOr Truth or Faltiood, lyins alirars in lome AHir-
31. tnation, or Negation, Mental or Verbal, our Pdeas arc not capable any ot
32. them of beine false, cillthe Mind passes lome Judomeni on them; ThaT1S,
33. astriris or denies something ot them.
34. 5. 4. Whei ever the Mind resers any of iis Ideas to aris chins
35. extrancous to them, ther are then capible ro be called true or
36. fasse. Because theMind in such a reference, atces a tacie Supposition of
37. their Conformits tothat Thins: wrhich suppolution, as ic happens to be
38. true or False; (0 the Ideas themselves come to be denominated. ThC
39. inost usual Cases Wrherein this happens, are these followins:
40. 5. 5. First, When theMind supposes any Ldeait has, conformable ro that in
41. other Mens Minds called by che lame common Name; 2. 8. Wrtien the
42. Mind intends, or judges its Ideas ot Justice, Temperance, Relixion, 10 be
43. the sarrie, rith irhat ocher Nen sive those Names tO.
44. Secondly, When che Mind suppoles ani Idea it has in it TelF, to bc con-
45. formable to some reat Existence. Thus che tro Zdeas, OF a Man, and a C en-
46. taur, suppoled to De the Ideas oF real Substances, are the onc true, and
47. the orher false; tueone havins a Conlormies ro irhat has really exitted;
48. tlic other nOt.
49. turion, alle Lem et als cm, nitercon allirs Properries depend: ast
50. chus the greatest part, il not all our Ideus os Substances, are ladse.
51. 5. 1.
52. Lhiraly, When the Mind refers any Ot itS Lacas d ial reat CDHIII

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 177. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0193?run=74