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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 185

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  1. C II A P.
  2. Of Nords or Languare in general.
  3. OD havino deligned Man for a Lociable Creature, made
  4. him not onlr rith an inclination, and under a necessiey
  5. tohare Fellonchip ich thole of his onkind; but furni-
  6. Med him also with Languase, Wrhich was tobe the great
  7. Instrumene, ald common Freot Socieer. Man therelore had by Nature
  8. his Organs (o fathioned, as to De fit 1o frame articulate Sounds, Wtrick We
  9. call Words. But chistras not enoush to produce Languase; for P’ar-
  10. rots, and several other Birds, Will be caustu to malie articulate Sounds
  11. distinet enoush, Whuch yet, by no means, are capableotLanguagc.
  12. 9. 2. Belides articulate Sounds theretore, it ivas Farther necessarr, thac
  13. he Tould De able co use these Sounds, as siens of internal Conceptions; and
  14. 1o make them Cand as martes For the Ideas ithin his omn Mind, Where.
  15. br they mighe bemade bnomn to octiers, and the Thousties oF Meris
  16. Minds be convered trom one to another.
  17. 5. 3. Bat neither was this sufficiene to makse Words (0 usesul as thev
  18. oughetobe. Itis not enoushtor the persection ol Lansuase, that Sounds
  19. can be made signs of Ldeas, unless those siens can be (0 made ule OF, 25 10
  20. comprehend several particular Things: Por the multiplication of Words
  21. aould have perplexed theirOse, had every particular thine necd ot a di-
  22. Pinet name to be lignitied by.
  23. 9. 4. Nords then are madeto be ligns ot our Ideas, and are general or
  24. particular, as the Ideas they stand for are general or particular. But De-
  25. Sides chese Names Which Cand For Ideas, there be others irhich Men havo
  26. Found and makce use OF, not ro lignifie any Idea, but the rant or ablerice
  27. OF LOme Ldeas, Simple or complex, or alI Ideas together; Such as are tho
  28. Latin rords, Nihil, and in Pnelimtr, Tenorance and Barrenness. AII Wvhich
  29. recarire ox privatire Words, cannot De said property to velons tO, Or
  30. Tionite no Fdeas: For then they rould be pertectir insignificant Sounds;
  31. Dut cherrelate to volitire Ideas, and lisnitie their ablence.
  32. 5. 5. TEmas also lead us a litele comards rhe Original oF alI our Nori-
  33. ons and Rnowledee, il we remark, horr great a dependence our Words
  34. have on common senlible ideas; and how thole wrhrich are made use
  35. ot rostand for Actions and Norions quire removed trom sense, have their
  36. Oririnal, and are transterred from obvious sensible Ideas; V. c. t0 Imacine,
  37. Apprebend, Comprehend, Adbere, Concerve, Instill, Diseust, Disturbance,
  38. Tranguilliey, ec. are aH Words taten trom the Operations of sensible
  39. Thinss, and applicd to certain Modes ol Thinkins. Spirit, in its pri
  40. mary sionification, is Breath; Angel, a Messenger: And L donDe nOE, BUF
  41. il e could trace them ro cheir Orisinals, we Mhould Aind, in all Lanoua-
  42. Bes, thenames, Which Ctand tor Thines rhat fall not under our Senles,

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 185. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0201?run=74