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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 180

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  1. True and False Ideas.
  2. Violet, be ontr a peculiar Lexture of Parts, or elsC ThaF very CoIOUT, FHE
  3. Idea Whereos (Which is in us) is the exact resemblance. And it is equals
  4. rom that Appearance, eo be denominated Blue, Wrhether it De chat reat
  5. Colour, or only a peculiar Texture in il, that causes in us that Paea: Since
  6. thie Name Blue notes properiy nothine, but thatmtark ot Diltinction, rhat
  7. is in a Violet discernable onlr by our Fres, Whaterer ie consilts in, chae
  8. Deine berond our Capacities distinetr to lenoi, and, perhapo, would bc
  9. oflessule to us, if re had Faculties to discern.
  10. 6. F5. Neither vould it carry any imputation oF Falhood to our sim-
  11. pledeas, if by the different Structure ot our Organs, it vere lo ordered,
  12. That the same Object Bould produce in severnl Mens Minds disserent Ideas
  13. at the same time; v. 9. isthe Ldea, that a Violet produced in onc ManS
  14. Mind by his Fres, ivere the same that a Marisold produced in anorhei
  15. Mans, andvice versa. For sincechis could never be knomn: becausc one
  16. Nans Mind could noc pals inro anocher HanS Bodr, to perceive what
  17. Appearances vero produced by thole Organs; neither the Ideas hereby,
  18. nOr thc Names, Would bC at all contounded, or any Faltood be in
  19. Cither. For alLThines that had che Texture ot a Violet, producinq con-
  20. Stanely che Sdea, irtich he called Blue; and chose wrhich hadche Pexture
  21. OF d Marigold producinq constant the Idea, Wrhich he as constantis
  22. called Vellor, irhratever chole Appearances rvere in his Mind; he rontd
  23. be able as regulariy to distinguisti Thingo For tis Vse by those AppCaran.
  24. Ces, and understand, and signisie those distinctions, marked by the Names
  25. Blue and Zelloir, as il the Appearances, or Ideas in his Mind, received
  26. Fromthole tro Florvers, vere exactly the same with the Ideas in other
  27. Mens Minds. Jam nevertheless very apt to thint, char the sensible Ideas.
  28. produced by ans Object in ditterent Mens Mincs, are molt commonty
  29. very near and undiscernably alihe. For wrhich Opinion, Lthink, there
  30. misht be mans Reasons oftered; but chat beins belides my prelent Busi
  31. ness, TMalLnot trouble my Reader with chem; buc onsy mindhim, chat
  32. the contrary Supposition, il it could be proved, is of little ule, cither for
  33. the Improvement ot our Rnomledse, or Convenieney ot Lite; and lo e
  34. necd not trouble our selves to examine it.
  35. 6. 16. From what hasbeen laid concernins our simple ideas, I chink, it
  36. evident, Thac our simple Idcas can none of them De faise, in respect of Thines
  37. exictins without us. For the Fruch oF chele AppearanCeS, Or PerceptiOnS
  38. in our Minds, consisting, as has been said, only in cheir beins ansiverable
  39. tothe Povers in external Obiects, to produce by our Senses such Appea
  40. rances in us: and cach ot them beins in the Mind, such as it is, suitable
  41. to the Porer that prodtuced it, and erhich alone it reprelents, it cannot
  42. uxon that ACcOnnE, or as referrd to such a Pattern, be Falsc. Bluc or
  43. Zellor, Bitter or Sivect, can never be false Ideas, thiele Perceptions in
  44. the Mind, are just such as thez are there, antiverins the Povers appointed
  45. by God toproduce them; and (o are truls erhat they are, and are inten-
  46. ded tobe. Indeed the Names may be milapply d; buc that inthisrespect,
  47. maties no Falcood inthe Ideas: AS if a Man ignorant in the Fnelist
  48. Tongue, Pouldcall Purple, Scarler.
  49. 9. 17. Secondly, Nether can our complex Ideas of Modes, in reference io
  50. the Fssence of any Thine really existine be false. Becaule Wrhatever com-
  51. Plex Idea I hare ofary Mode, it hath no reterence to ans Pattern exist.
  52. ins, and made by Nature: it is not supposed to contain in it any other
  53. Ideas, than What ic Math; nor to reprelent any. thing. bur such a Compli-
  54. cation of Ldeas, as it docs. Thusirhen Phavethe Laca oF Tuch an Action
  55. ot 2 Mam, Who sorbearsto aFord timsels suct Meat, Cinte, and Cloathire
  56. and
  57. B0

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 180. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0196?run=74