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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 182

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  1. True an l’abse luclos
  2. Thines ithout, cannor be thoughe false, beins exact Representarions or
  3. Comethins: nor yet il thes have ans thing inthem, ditterins trom itie
  4. realitr of Thinss, can they proxeriy be laid to be false Reprelentations.
  5. Or Fdeas oF Thinss, ther do not represent. But the miltatie and fal.
  6. hood is,
  7. 6. 2F. First, Whenthe Mind havins anx Idea, it judees and concludes
  8. et the same, that is in other Mens Minds, sienified by the same name
  9. or that it is contormable co the ordinary receired signification, or de-
  10. tinition of that Word, irtien indecd it is not: Which is che most usu-
  11. al mistakee in mixed Modes, though orher Ideas allo are liable to it.
  12. 5. 22. Seconalr, Wrhen it havino a complex idea made up ot luch a Col.
  13. lection of Cimple ones, as Nature never puts cocether, it judces it io arée
  14. 20 a Species of Crearures really existine; as wrhren it joins the weistit ot
  15. Tin, tothe colour, Fulibilies, and sxednels oF Crold.
  16. 8. 23. Thiraly, When in its complex Idea, it hras united a certain num-
  17. ber ot limple Ideas, that do really exist rogether in lome lorts of Crea
  18. tures, but has also lest out others, as much inseparable, it judces this to
  19. be a perfect compleat Idea, of a sort of things which really it is not: v. e
  20. having joined the sdeas ot substance, rellor, malleable, most heavr, and
  21. fusible, it tatesthat complex Ldea to be thecompleat idea of Ciold, erten
  22. Vet its Deculiar Axednels and solubilier in aqua Recia are as inseparable
  23. trom chole ocher Ideas, or Oualities oFthat Body, as they are one from
  24. another.
  25. 8. 24. Fourrhlr, Themistake is yex Greater, when I judce, that this com-
  26. plex Ideas contains in it the real Fssence of any Body existing; When at
  27. least it contains but lome ter of chole Proverties, Which Nor trom its
  28. real Fssence and Constiturion. I lay, onty lome ser ofthole Proverties.
  29. For those Properries consistine mostly in the active and passive Porers, ie
  30. has, in reference to other Thinos, all that are vulgarts lenorn ot anyone
  31. Body; and ofihich the complex idea ot that lind ot Things is usualy
  32. made, are but a very ferr, in comparison of erhat a Man, that has leveral
  33. rays tried and examined it, Rnors of that one sort of Things; and aII
  34. that the most expere Man knons, are but ferr, in comparison ot vhat arc
  35. reallr in that Body, and depend on its internal or essential Constitution.
  36. Theessence ot a Triansle, lies in a verr little compals, consilts in a very
  37. Ter Ideas; three Lines mecting at three Angles, makre ux that Fsence:
  38. Bur ehe Properties that _o trom this Fsence, are more than can bc
  39. ealily bnorri, or enumerated. 50 limasino it is in Subltances their real
  40. Fissences lic, in a lictle compass; thoush the Properties Aoins trom chat
  41. internal Constitution, are endless
  42. 8. 25. Foconclude, a Man havins no notion ol any Thins without
  43. him, but by the Pdea he has of it in his Mind; Wrhich Idea, he has a
  44. porer to call by What Name he pleases, he may, indeed, malce an Idea
  45. neither ansverins the reality of Thinss, nor agrecins ro che Ideas com
  46. inonty Cignitiedby ocher Peoples Words; but cannor makre a vrone, or
  47. False idea oF a Thing, irhich isno otherrrise knovn to him, but by the
  48. Ideahe has ofit. V. e. WhenI trame an Ldea otthe Legs, Arms, and Body
  49. oF a Man, and join t0 this a FTorses FIcad and Neck, I do nor inatie a
  50. False Lalea oF any thins; because it reprelents nochine rithout me. But
  51. Wrhen Icall it a Man, or Partar, and imagine it cithier to represent some
  52. real Beins rithour me, or tobe the lame Idea, that others callby the
  53. Pairre name; in cither ot these cases, I may err. And uxon this account it
  54. IS, Flat ic comes to be termed a false Idea; though, indeed, the Falhhood
  55. lic not in che Idea bur in chat racit mencal Propolition, Wherein a con
  56. formicy

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 182. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0198?run=74