An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 183
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The machine reads it as
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- True and F’alse Ideas.
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- havino framed such an Idea in my Mlind, Without chinkino, cither that
- Existence, or thename Man, Or Tartar, belones to it, P Will calt it Man,
- Or Partar, I mar be justly chouohe phantastical in the Namino; but nOE
- erroncous in y fudgent; nor the dea anr vay false.
- 6. 26. Vpon che Wtiole matrer, P think, That Our Ideas, 25 they are
- considered by the Mind, cither in reference to the prover signilication ot
- theirNames; or in relerence to therealiey oF Thines, mar very sicly be
- called riche, or vrone Ideas, accordins as they agree, or dilagree to those
- Patterns to vrhich chez are reterred. But it ans onc had rather call them
- true, or False, tis tr he use a liberey, Which everr onc has, to call Thinos
- by those Names he chins best; chourh in proprietr of Specch, TrutH, or
- Falthood, Will, Ichinth, scarce agree to them, but as thez, lome az or
- ottrer, virtually contain in them lome mental Proxosition. The Ideas
- thac are in a Mlans Mind, simpls considered, cannot berrone, untels
- Complex ones, Wherein inconsittent parts are jumbled cogether. AII other
- Ldeas are in themselres rioht; and the lnomlecse abour chem, risht and
- true Rnomlede: Dut when e come to reter them to any thins, as to
- their Patrerns and Archetypes, then ther are capable of being Wrons, 25
- Far asther dilaprec wich such ArchetypeS.
- 6. 27. Tlarins thus siven an aceount of the original, TOrIS, and exteHE
- oFour ideas, Wich several other Conliderations, about chese (I knor nor
- Whether Imay Cay) Instruments, or Materials, ol our hnomledoe, the
- ethodI ar Arst propoled to my selE, vould no require, that l Mould
- immediatelz proceed to Mem, vtat ule the Inderstandine malies ot
- chem, and What Anomledoe ve have by them. This was chat intict
- in ehe tirst general viem lhad ofthis Subject, as all thacl thoupht
- PBould have to do: lut uxon a nearer approach, I find, that there
- is so clole a connexion betrreen ideas and Words; and our abstract
- Ideas, and general Words, have loconstant arelation onetoanother, that
- ic is impossible to speal cleartr and distinctly or our Rnowlecge, irhicu
- al conlils in Propolitions, without considerine, trct, the Nature, Ile,
- andSienitication ol Larguase; Which cheretore must be the bulinels or
- the next BOOlE.
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 183. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0199?run=74