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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 179

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  1. True ana L udse Id
  2. 8. 20. Complex Ideas are much more liable to be false in this respet
  3. and the complex Ideas of. mixed Modes, much more than those of substances:
  4. Because in Substances, (especially etiole, wrhich etie cormon and unbor
  5. rorred Names ot any Language are applied to,) fome remartable sonsible
  6. Oualities, serrins ordinarils to distinsuisti one fort trom another, casilu
  7. preserre thole, erho talso any Care in thouse oftheir Nords, From apply
  8. ins them to forts of Substances, to irhich ther. do not at all Betons: Bui
  9. in mixed Modes, we are much more uncertain, it beins not lo cale
  10. to derermine of several Actions; Whechenther areto be called fustice, or
  11. Cruelty; Liberalitr, Or Prodicality. And (o ir reterrinsour Ideas tothose
  12. oF other Men, calld by the Tame Name, ours may De false; and oux
  13. Idea We cal) fultice, mas, verhaps, De that erhich oushe to have another
  14. NaIC, sit
  15. 5I. D. LF. But Whether or noour Ideas ot mixed Modesare more liablothan
  16. any FOrt, to be difterent trom thole olother Nen, arhich aro martied by
  17. thelame Names This at lealt is certain, Thatthis sort ef Falshood is mucti
  18. more familiarly artributed eo our Ideas oF mixed Modes, iban to any otber.
  19. When a nan is thoushe to have a talle Idea ol fustice, or Gracitude, or
  20. Clorr, iE is For no other Realon; butchat his asrees not rich the Ideas,
  21. Which cach. OF tHOsC NNames are thC SignSOF IN OFHOKMCn.
  22. The Reason whereof leoms ro me to be this, That, the abstract Ideas ot
  23. mixed Nodes, Beino MenS voluntary Combinations of such a precise Co)
  24. lection ot simple Ideas; and (o the tissenee ot each Species, Being made
  25. br Nen alorie, whicreo re have no other sensible Standard, exictine any
  26. ehere, but the Name ic soIP, or the desinition ol chat Name: We have no-
  27. thins elle to reter chese our Ideas of mixed Modes toas Standards, to rhich
  28. e ould contorm chem, but che Ldeas oFthole, Whoare thouxhe to ule
  29. those Namos in their most proper Signitications; and so as our Ideas con-
  30. Form or dittertrom them, ther pass for true or fasse. And thus nuct
  31. concernins the Pruch and Falchood of our Ldeas, in relerence to their
  32. Names.
  33. 6. +3. Secondly AS CO The Truth and Falstood of our Ideas, in reference
  34. tothe reat Fxistence ot Things, evhien that is mado the Standard of their
  35. Fruch none of them can be termed False, but ontr our complex Ideas of
  36. Subltances.
  37. 5. F4. First, Our smple Ideas, beins Barely such Perceptions, as God
  38. has ted us to receire, and siven Porverro external Objects to produce in
  39. us by established LaWs, and Ways, suicable eo his Wisdom and Coodnels.
  40. elionoh incomprehensible to us, their Truth consilts in nothins else butir
  41. such AppCaranCeS, as are prodluced inus, and mustbe suirable to tholePovers.
  42. hehas placed in external Objects, or else ther could nor be produced in us:
  43. And chus ansverins those Porers, chey are irhat they Mould be, true Ideas.
  44. Wor dothes become liable to ans imputation of Falthood, iEthe Mind (as
  45. in mosten Pbeliere it docs) judges thele Ideas to be in the Things them
  46. selres. For Cod in his Wisdom, having set them as Marks ot Distin-
  47. etion in Thines, Whereby ire mar be ablo to discern one Thine trom
  48. another; ane so chuse any of them Por oux uses, as e have Occasion:
  49. IE alterS ROL thC NaturC OF our simple Idea, Whether we thinkc that the
  50. Fdea oFBluc, Be in the Violet it selF, or in our Mind only; and only the
  51. Pover ot producins it by the Texture ofits Parts, reflectins the Particles
  52. OfLishe, alter ac errain Manner, to De in the Violet it selF. FOr that Tex
  53. ture in che Objes, operatins regularis and constanly, producins thC
  54. same Idea oF Blue in us, it serves us to distinguist, by our Py es, thac trom
  55. ans octier Thins, Whether chac distinguistrins Mars, as it is realls in che
  56. riotet

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 179. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0195?run=74