An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 181

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1. Frue ar Lcbst cuba
2. and other Conveniencies ot Lise, as his Riches and Fstate ill be suffici
3. ent io supply, and his Ctation requires, I have no falle Idea; but luctr
4. as represents an Action, cither as I And, or imarine it; and so is ca-
5. Pable ot reither Truch; or Falstrood. But When Pgire chename Frusality,
6. or Verrue, to this Action, then it may be called a false Idea, if thereby it
7. De suppoledto aoree ithi that iaea, to Which, in proprietr of specchu, the
8. name of Frusaliey doch belons; or to be contormable ro that LaWr, erhich
9. is the Scandard ot Tertue and Vice.
10. 6. X8. Thiraly, Our complex ideas of Substances, heins all referred to
11. Patterns in Thines themselves, mar be false. That they are aI False-
12. nhen loohed upon as the Representations oF the untnomn Psences ot
13. Thinss, is so evidene, thac there necds nochine 1o be laid oF it. I MaiI
14. cheretore pals over that chimerical Suppolirion, and considerthem a5 COl.
15. lections of simple Ideas in the Mind, taken trom Combinations oF simple
16. Ideas exillins cogether constantls in Things, ol rrhich Patterns, tlier
17. are che suppoled Copies: And in thisrelerence of them, io the exiltence
18. Ol Thinss, they are false Ideas: T. When they put together simple Ideas
19. ertrich in the real Fxistence of Things, have no union; as wrtien tothe
20. Stiape, and size, that exist together in a HTorle, is joined, in the sae COM-
21. Dlex Idea, the porer oF Bartrins lile a Dog: Which three Ideas, hour-
22. ever put together into one in the Mind, ivere never united in Nature;
23. andchis theretore may be caltec a talse Idea ol an Horle. 2. Ideas ot
24. Substances are, in this respect, also false, when trom ans Collection of
25. simple Ideas, that do alvars exist tocether, there is separated, by a direct
26. Negation, any ochier simple Idea, Wrhich is constaney joined rith them.
27. Fhus il co Fxtension, Solidier, Fulibility, che reculiar Wcishrincls and vel.
28. Jo Colour ol Gold, any onc join in his Thouglus the Negation oE a
29. freater deorce of tixedness, chan is in Lead, or Copper; he may be laidto
30. have a false complex Idea, as Well as When he joins to thole other simple
31. ones, the Idea ot pertect absolute Fixednels: for either waz, the complex
32. Idea oF Ciold beins made up of such simple ones, as have no union in
33. Nature, may be termed false. But il he leare out of this his complex Idea-
34. that ot Fixednels quire, rithout cither actually joining to, or separa-
35. tins of it trom the rest in his Mind, it is, Pthinls, to be looled on, a5 an
36. inadequate and impertect Idea, rather than a False onc: since thoustr ie
37. contains not all che limple Ideas that are united in Nature, set it puts
38. none cosecher, bur whac do really exist togetler.
39. 8. F9. Thoush in compliance with the ordinary ay oF Speakine,
40. trave Bewed in whrat sense, and uxon whrat ground our ldeas may be
41. Tometimes called true, or false; vet il e rill looke a litele nearer into the
42. matter in all cales, where any Idea is calld erue, or false, it is trom lome
43. Jucoment that the Mind makres, or is supposed to malce, that is true, or FaISC.
44. FOr Truth, or Falshood, beins ne ver without some afirmation, or Negatiop.
45. Exprels, Or Pacit, it is notro be founc, but wrhere ligns are joined or
46. Separated, accordins to the aoreement, or dilaoreement, ot the Things
47. elier stand for. The sions we chicsy ule, are cither Ideas, or Words;
48. hereich re makre cictier mental, or verbal Propolitions. Truth lies in
49. sojoinins. or separatins chese Representatires, as che Thinssthey Aand
50. for, do, in themselves, derec, or dilagree: and Falthood in the contrary,
51. 25 Mhall De more sully Mhewed hereatter.
52. 5. 20. Any Idea then, re hare in our Minds, Whether contormable, Or
53. not, tothe existence of Things, Or to any Ideas in the Minds oF ocher
54. Men, cannot properly for this alone be called talse. Lor these Represen.
55. rarions, il ches hiave nochins in chem, buc wtiat is really exittins in
56. Thines

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 181. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0197?run=74